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Boring part in exam going over repetitive course (7)

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I believe the answer is:

orbital

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'going over repetitive course' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are adjectives, I cannot understand how they can define each other.

'boring part in exam' is the wordplay.
'boring part' becomes 'bit' (both mean a piece of something. I am not sure about the 'boring' bit.).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'exam' becomes 'oral' (spoken academic test).
'bit' put inside 'oral' is 'ORBITAL'.

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(Other definitions for orbital that I've seen before include "Relating to a planet's or a moon's track" , "that's going around" , "Like a ring road" , "bypass" , "Of a planetary path" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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