Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20150219132354/@comment-5273810-20150219160207

NeedleJizo wrote: Once again, I want to state my complete and utter disbelief that people this smart and powerful are JUST Genin. From what I gathered from the episode(and this is supported by comments made about the Sand in issue 247) and other comments made earlier, the Sand had a unearthly high standard for their shinobi before Gaara took charge and with the new curriculum they established based on the leaf's their standards went down to more reasonable standards. As such Shira wasn't allowed as he could only do Taijutsu, and the others probably didn't make it because their standard was set a little to high as their ranks only had a few(compared to the likes of the leaf that could have more) and so only the elitest could pass. I mean Gaara when he took the Chunin exams for the first time was already above the power level of your average jonin from other villages. Because of this I always assumed, that the quality margin for each rank of the Sand was higher than it should be.