Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20170802095306/@comment-30323490-20170807204722

I personally think it's more likely that Naruto joined the academy much earlier than the others. Naruto was an orphan so there was nobody to look after him, and on top of everything he was the nine-tails jinchuriki. So him joining earlier was a win-win situation, because like that they at least had somebody to look after him half a day and make sure everything was in check.Also it makes sens with him failing the exam 3 times. Whatever, we can only speculate since it was never stated how Naruto failed so many times.