Jedi training/Legends

Jedi train constantly to meet the intense requirements of the Jedi Order. Jedi may train in groups or may train in a Master–Apprentice relationship.

In the Old Republic
After younglings are tested and approved for Jedi training, they move to the Jedi Temple to begin training in groups with a wise and powerful Jedi Master such as Yoda. Basic techniques are taught, such as [Lightsaber combat#Form I: Shii-Cho|Form I]] lightsaber combat, and basic uses of the Force. Occasionally a Jedi Knight or Master comes to check on the younglings' progress; if that Knight or Master sees a youngling with promise, he or she will, with High Council approval, take that youngling as his or her Padawan, which is the term that the Jedi use for the Knight or Master's apprentice.

The Padawan then travels with his or her master for a time, usually only a few years pre-adolescence to a few years post-adolescence, but the time spent can vary ad infinitum. The Jedi Knight/Master goes on missions with her/her Padawan while teaching advanced lightsaber techniques and more about the Force. At the end of this training period, the teacher presents the Padawan before the High Council as a request for a Jedi trial.

If the Padawan passes the Jedi trial, he or she becomes a Jedi Knight. If not, the teacher must continue training with the Padawan until he or she is ready to once again face the trials.

In the New Republic
The system of Jedi training was looser in the post–Original trilogy era in that Jedi students often did not begin training until much older than the younger age required in the Old Republic. He or she usually traveled to a Jedi Academy to learn combat and Force techniques. Due to the destruction of much of the knowledge and the purge of many masters, both Force mastery and lightsaber mastery was of less greatness than it ever was in the Old Republic era, but times always have a chance to change.