There are several reasons as to why Masashi Kishimoto did not turn Naruto into a genin after his fight with Neji but this one ...

Neji Hyuga suffered in the years before he began ... Kakashi Hatake had suffered a great deal in his backstory. As a genin, ...

Each Genin starts out with a perfect score of 10 ... Even if characters like Sasuke, Neji, Tenten, Kiba, and Kankuro were spotted cheating, their first methods of cheating were successful and ...