Originally posted by: folf
Will he become a Chunin some other way, say, through various missions?

Will he one day become a hokage while still officially a Genin?

If he takes the exam, and it requires a team of three, who else will be on his team?
A "degree" may show that a person is likely to be at a certain skill or power level. But no garantee that someone without that "degree" is weak.

Peter Jennings never graduated from High School, yet he's smarter than many Harvard Grads in Journalism.