Ok, edited my post above include my charsheet now. So take look at Jirobou Inuzuka, a shinobi who was adopted to one five great villages and origin wise is amongst non-shinobi family. What comes to exams and their parts;<br/><br/><strong>Pre-exam:</strong>As mentioned in background my char has lots of undeserved stigma while in Kumogakure, while in another village where shinobi from other villages come attend they do not know who he is and thus he will gladly embrace the incognicto identity in this phase and socialize as he can with other shinobi (as this is prime reason why his jounin instructor convinced him to partake if he has own doubts about his own success or even success changing how his village would view him). So idea is that he gets lots associates and friends but somepoint some of the non-team Kumogakure gang/group could suddenly appear and publicly warn other shinobi not to trust him and spill beans about his origins (which means he was not born to Kumogakure and thus is outsider who had entered shinobi life and he comes from non-shinobi family and his father being criminal etc). I leave exact reactions of the NPC's or PC's who hear about it up on air. It may spread out to his new associates the suspicious attitude or be deflected away (or mean nothing in interaction wise and some could even grow curious about his life outside the village before he entered as most shinobi cannot imagine 'normal' life outside village customs and structure).<br/><br/><strong>First stage:</strong>In here my char could excel (has decent knowlegde modifier) if we follow that there is a catch in written tests; he could easily gather intel with his jutsu or his high social skills (sense motive and such) or other analyzing skills which he is good at.<br/><br/><strong>Second stage:</strong>In here when he is teamed with strangers he would be helpful as he can, he has versatile skill set as scout and can participate in combat and gather intel very well (and be stealthy about it).<br/><br/><strong>Third stage:</strong>This is probably point where he displays his surprising talents and tricks which he had learned and display he is not 'dead weight' to his team nor community. That he can fight and fight pretty darn well and display variety of techniques and such deal with his opponent who is likely more traditional backgrounded and is viewed come from 'great shinobi family' and display even if he was not born (nor have feat) genius, he is genius in his own hard working way.