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Eight heartless school assess­ments: papers turned over with mild revulsion (8)

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distaste

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'mild revulsion' is the definition.
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'eight heartless school assessments papers turned over' is the wordplay.
'heartless' means to remove the middle letters.
'school assessments' becomes 'sats' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'papers' becomes 'ID' (identifying documents are one's 'papers').
'turned over' says the letters should be written backwards.
'eight' with its centre taken out is 'et'.
'et'+'sats'+'id'='etsatsid'
'etsatsid' reversed gives 'DISTASTE'.

'with' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for distaste that I've seen before include "lack of relish?" , "Antipathy, aversion" , "Feeling of dislike - unsavoury?" , "Not liking" , "Loathing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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