Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20150205113606/@comment-2043993-20150205162731

Bambusek wrote: During Obito's flashback we see a Chuunin Exam that seems like Konoha exclusive, so it is a given that villages can do it on their own, without inviting foreigners. And Temari was Jonin at the day of Naruto return, but it was never explained when she passed her exam, so I think timeline in this case is ok. In regards to villages holding their own exams, I think that only applies during war-time where alliances between the villages are basically null and void. It also goes back to the Third Hokage's speech at the end of the second test of the chunin-exam of the manga, with the villages "agreeing to hold the chunin exams together as an alternative to war" or something like that. That of course doesn't mean that the sand siblings couldn't have participated in a chunin-exam held in another village prior to this arc. But I agree timeline does seem to fit so far.