The band 4 and band 8 will have tests of this kind. That's why we have to train students to copy. We have a spot dictation item in the exam. First we play a short passage twice, then give students question sheet with 15-20 blanks for them to fill. If one can not fill 10-15 blanks correctly, he might fail this item.
Some students get very nervous when they come into the language lab.
They begin to worry about how to answer the questions even before they listen to the tape. And one time listening never seems enough for them. Now your job as the teacher is to get them to channel that nervous energy into the pre-listening skill of predicting what they think they will hear, based on the questions they read. As they are reading ask them to underline any vocabulary they are unfamiliar with. Walk around and make a note of any words they have underlined .