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It's very possible that I miss read something that lead me to this confusion. I'm sorry if I'm asking dumb questions lmao.



Midorya completes a practicle entrance exam where he needs to fight robots for points. Students also get graded for heroic acts during the exam.



It'd been implied from the very beginning that UA has one practical entrance exam. Said exam has been implied to be impossible to complete without a quirk/with a non offensive quirk (eg Hitoshi Shinso's brainwashing can't fight robots). Aizawa even goes on to criticize this particular exam, as candidates like Shinso have a lot of potential but cannot complete this exam by the circumstance of their quirk.



However, Inasa completes an obstacle, marathon styled entrance exam. With Todoroki Shouto. Here is where I get super confused.



The narrative implies that there's one entrance exam, the one that Midorya took. All criticisms, discussion, and narration about "the" entrance exam matches the exam Midorya took. How is there a second, different entrance exam (that Inasa took), that does not match the narration, when the narration implies  that there's one entrance exam?



<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">If the Inasa’s exam is anything like the obstacle course in the sports festival, then it is possible for someone quirkless to complete it. Midorya came first in the race without using his quirk once. So why does the story imply that the entrance exam is deeply flawed/impossible for certain quirks/etc?

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Furthermore, how does the scoring work for this style of exam? The obvious way would be to take the top *blank* students who finish the exam, but how do they adjust and gauge for heroic acts during the exam?

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">There are many instances where Bakugo is praised for placing first in the exam. Why is that? If there are multiple styled exams with different ways to gauge performance, how can Bakugo be considered first, since there would be multiple first places among students (as there are multiple exams. While the story only implies that there’s one exam, the existence of the marathon exam implies that there's multiple exam styles. )

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Finally, why the hell was Todokori Shouto participating in the entrance exam? He was a student sent to UA on recommendation. Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t students of recommendation automatically admitted to UA? Why did he take the exam?

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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Sorry for asking any stupid questions! Thanks for reading. <ac_metadata title="The entrance exam makes no sense"> </ac_metadata>