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Third of examinees surprisingly pass April assessments (10)

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I believe the answer is:

appraisals

'assessments' is the definition.
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'third of examinees surprisingly pass april' is the wordplay.
'third of examinees' becomes 'a' (3rd letter of 'examinees').
'surprisingly' indicates an anagram (a surprising ordering of the letters).
'pass'+'april'='passapril'
'passapril' with letters rearranged gives 'ppraisals'.
'a'+'ppraisals'='APPRAISALS'

(Another definition for appraisals that I've seen is " valuations".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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