Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-3279282-20150122133525/@comment-25632268-20150127200250

After the war Naruto could pretty much get promoted out of the bat to at least chuunin (I don't know if his rank is mentioned in the movie or not). Yeah, I know they said that exam is about maintaining balance between villages, but I don't think that Kage could not promote his shinobi without it under special circumstances. And with Naruto exam would be pointless anyway - he become smarter so he would pass written part (especially that it never seems to be about knowledge) and in other parts who would go against him? He could alone handle whole Genin team even without Sage mode or Kurama.