Kodoku had already written the same answers as Azuki had, but only his perceptive eye caught that she had an answer he didn't- and the bug-nin quickly remedied that. Teru, of course, was not much of an academic. She quickly copied off of Azuki's paper and then jealously guarded it from anyone else's prying eyes. Shiromaru sniffed at the sheet for a second, then opened his mouth over it. Teru recoiled from him in horror, clutching the sheet close to her chest.<br/><br/>"Uh... Can we talk?" Kodoku asked their proctor, who smiled and nodded as he passed, "Yes."<br/><br/>Himawari didn't seem to notice Azuki's subtle way of getting her attention- focused on the exam as she was. Thankfully, Naomi sitting beside her was giving Azuki a sideways glance. With a nudge from the Nara kunoichi, Himawari looked behind her. Her blue eyes followed Azuki's pencil and then she nodded. With a smile, her eyes turned pure white. They scanned over Azuki's paper for a moment. ...A long moment. She<em>was</em>reading backwards afterall.<br/><br/>Then she copied down the answers. Azuki overheard other students asking questions... they were all answered with either yes or no and anything more complex than that was flat out ignored or more considerately, asked to be rephrased. The proctors were going from student to student and the once-silent room was starting to get louder.<br/><br/>Naomi raised her hand and the Mist Jounin went over to her with a jovial smile. She held up her tally, "Is this tally relevent to the written test?" He nodded and then moved to attend to another student before she interrupted, "If this person fails their test, does that mean I fail it as well?"<br/><br/>The brown-haired man with fair features paused for a moment, then leaned in close, "Yes." and finally left to answer the other genin.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Sarada Uchiha went over to Yuki, not revealing any hint of the personal relationship they might have had. "Yes or no questions only." She sternly replied, then, when he interjected with his second inquiry, the Jounin's features softened, "Uh, no." She murmured under her breath, "I think."<br/><br/>She gave him a significant look, widening her eyes for just a moment before pushing up her glasses and leaving him to his own devices.<br/><br/>"You mean... if everyone answers exactly the same?" Kotone asked, having overheard his first question, she leaned over to whisper, "Even if we got some wrong, as long as most of us answer that way, then nearly everyone would pass... wouldn't they? Much more than half."<br/><br/>"Yuki-kun..." Makoto said from her 'seat' off to the side of the chairs, the puppet crouched low with her real feet on the ground. Her little three-fingered grabber protruding from the puppet's weapon bay up top was doing an admirable job of holding the pencil. In fact, she had already scrawled down one of the answers. She simply wrote the Kanji for 'Gate' as the answer for number 10.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"No, yes." The Jounin tersely answered Jin-Ryu before attending to another genin. "Psst." Kurai elbowed Jin-Ryu and revealed just enough of her paper to give him the answer to 6. She wrote 'A shuriken, Lightning' there. Kay, meanwhile, didn't have anything of her own to share. She meekly took Kurai's answer and scribbled it down for herself.<br/><br/>"Damn, these are hard..." The petite speedster sighed, holding her pencil like she was mashing a pestle. She lowered her head, already quite low to the desk, and gave Jin-Ryu the shifty-eyes, "So we gotta cheat, huh? Get these answers from the other villages' genin?"<br/><br/>"Or just<em>ask</em>them." Kurai shrugged.<br/><br/>"HEY!" Nara Naomi stood up just a few feet from Azuki. She stood... on her chair, clutching the tally. The brown-haired woman spared one glance over at the head proctor, who made no motion to stop her. Nodding, she declared to the whole group, "My name is Nara Naomi! If my name is on your tally, then that makes us team mates! If your name is Akihiko Fūma... then that makes us team mates!"<br/><br/>"I'm Akihiko Fūma!" Declared a man's voice from the class, a genin from the non-Great village section. Next to Yuki, Makoto suddenly stiffened her puppet, then tilted it to angle the camera at the tally she placed on the desk. It said, 'Nara Naomi'...<br/><br/>"Uh..." She looked back up, "So that means..."<br/><br/>Suddenly, next to Jin-Ryu, Kay stood up, "Setsuko! I've got Setsuko! Setsukkkooo!?" Then she wasn't alone, as others stood up, shouting out their names and who they had on their tallies. The whole classroom was in an uproar, as genin began to yell over eachother. Individual names got lost in the mess and it was even starting to pain the ears.<br/><br/>"NEW RULE!" Ganryū declared in a booming voice, quieting down everyone. Then, in a softer tone, "No yelling. Proctors, anyone who yells loses a point off their final grade."<br/><br/>As if rehearsed in unison, all the Jounin produced a red pen and clicked it.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Ah, I'm sorry. I forget sometimes English is a second language to you, and statistics have a vocabulary of their own. Median means the exact center score, not the average. IE; If there were only 3 tests, with a grade of 1, 2, and 10... the median would be 2 while the average would be 4.33<br/><br/>Basically, doing very poorly (answering none of them) and doing very well (answering all of them) shouldn't effect the score required to pass. The 'geniuses' that get all ten questions don't influence the required score at all... but what matters, indirectly, is how well or poorly the average individuals in the group preform.<br/><br/>Honestly, you don't have to worry about it too much.</div></div>