[@SimplyJohn].

We read through the relevant bits of that book. There are a few points of note... Most important is that it was written sometime not long after the Ruusan reformation, which was when the Sith as a large, prominent faction faded from the galactic scene. That event changed the Jedi training and knighting protocols.

Aftermath is set some 2650 years before the Ruusan reformation, during a great war with the Sith. Wartime breeds changes to policies. regulations are relaxed, requirements changed for convenience.

Secondly, even if that book had been accurate lore for this era rather than later eras, it clearly states "The Grand Master or Ranking Jedi" in the passage about formalizing knighthood. With the many places Jedi were knighted in this era and countless other eras, the formal knighting would at least as often be performed by the ranking Jedi in that particular locale, be it the Jedi Temple of Coruscant, one of the numerous specialized academies, or a praxeum ship.

As such, there is no logical reason for your Jedi to be waiting for the grand master, no matter if the procedures described in [i]The Jedi Path[/i] were defined this long before the book was written or not. If it had been relevant for the Grand Master to judge him, he would have been sent to Alderaan where the Grand Master is at the time, not been asked to wait many days on Coruscant.