

I stumbled over this question on Facebook. I was wondering how Rock Lee got
out of the academy and why did they let him leave?


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How did Rock Lee pass the academy test?


One does not need to use Henge no Jutsu in order to graduate the ninja
academy. Promotion throughout the entire series is never dependent upon a
certain technique, but rather the capabilities of that shinobi determined by
the Hokage and village elders.

Take a look at the Chuunin selection exam. Shikamaru received the only
promotion yet there was no way he could have won the entire tournament.

While Lee could never use ninjutsu nor genjutsu, he was able to have very good
technique with taijutsu and that allowed him to graduate. Lee just uses his
chakra in a different way, but that doesn't make him any less of a ninja.

Same with Shino for that matter. Shino lets his bugs eat his chakra and then
he can command them. So instead of making a kage bunshin, Shino uses a lot of
bugs to form a clone.

Because every shinobi specializes in different areas, there is no set
requirements in order to be promoted. The decision comes from the Hokage and
the elders for Chuunin and above. For the academy, the instructor decides when
the child is ready to be a Genin.


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Although the final exams of the Ninja Academy do include a demonstration of
Henge no Jutsu, that is almost certainly not the whole test. There should at
least be demonstrations of Ninjutsu and Taijutsu, and probably a written exam
and some sparring matches (not unlike what appear in the Chunin Exam, but
scaled down). Rock Lee couldn't have gotten much more than a zero on his
Genjutsu and Ninjutsu demonstrations, to be sure. But depending on the Ninja
Academy's grading rubrics, he might have done well enough on the other parts
of the exam to pass _even with_ those zeroes.

It is also possible that Guy got these sections of the exam waived for him,
due to special circumstances. But from a literary standpoint, it makes more
sense for Rock Lee -a character who stands for achievement through ludicrously
hard work- to have passed the exam even with the zeroes in place. Indeed, I'd
argue that the most likely scenario is that Guy probably tried to get those
parts waived, but Rock insisted on taking them anyway.


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not all students had to be able to make shadow clones in order to graduate.
Naruto was failed for not being able to make a shadow clone simply because he
was worst in his class and had no skill in order to become a genin. Rock lee
being exceptionally skilled in taijutsu had no reason to be failed while he
had many skills in taijutsu


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