Padawan (Earth-2356)

"The boy. He your son? No. He is my Padawan. Something between a student and an apprentice."

- Grecker and Obi-Wan Kenobi

A Padawan, also known as a Padawan learner, referred to a Force-sensitive teenager who trained in the Jedi Order to one day become a full-fledged Jedi Knight. Padawans were known as Jedi younglings at first, and trained in classroom settings with multiple students and a Jedi Master. After reaching a certain age, Padawans were apprenticed in four-man cells, consisting of three Padawans and a Jedi Master and rarely a Jedi Knight, beginning their training. The make-up of these teams was based on the individual skills of the Padawan, so that there would be a balance between the teams. For instance, Anakin Skywalker, who passed with the lowest grades, was put in a team with Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, who passed with the highest grades and highest written exam scores, respectively.

A Master was meant to choose the three Padawans who they wished to train. Apprentices would often go on missions with their masters as part of their training. The Jedi Code forbade the Jedi from training more than three Padawans or apprentice at a time. Most of the Padawans were known to grow or wear Padawan braids to symbolize their rank. After succesfully completing the Jedi Trials, a set of difficult tasks made to test the skills of a Padawan, they would be promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight.

They were typically sent either on D-rank missions, which were almost entirely risk-free jobs of manual labour, or, rarely, on C-rank missions, which were a cut above that and begin to verge on real "Jedi" work that have a very low possibility of risk to the Padawans involved. When the Jedi Order was short-handed on upper-level Jedi because of the invasion, the High Council had to occasionally send Padawans on higher-ranked missions.

During the Clone Wars, the Jedi High Council began to assign Padawans to Jedi Masters, instead of allowing them to choose. During the war some Padawans became commanders in the Grand Army of the Republic, and helped lead the Republic's clone troopers against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. After the establishment of the Galactic Empire, a few ex-Padawans that had survived Order 66 or left the Jedi Order before the purge joined the nascent Alliance to Restore the Republic.

Source

 * https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Padawan.
 * https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Genin.