name for listening exercise

[orangutan]

What name would you give to an exercise in a listening test in which the candidate has to reconstruct the passage from notes taken while it is played at a normal speed?

Someone was asking me, and my mind seems to have gone blank on this one.

[konungursvia]

Yes, it's "torture."

[orangutan]

Yes... is there perhaps a better way of selling it to students? :)

[ymnisky]

Originally Posted by orangutan

What name would you give to an exercise in a listening test in which the candidate has to reconstruct the passage from notes taken while it is played at a normal speed?

Someone was asking me, and my mind seems to have gone blank on this one.

shorthand dictation
dialog/passage/story reconstruction
reconstructing the situation
retelling in your own words
a better view than the original
a personal point of view
checking understanding
shorthand notes
the attentive listener
attentive rewriting
rewriting in your own words
a personal rewriting
checking listening comprehension
...

PS Not a native speaker, please comment on the less appropriate ones.

[konungursvia]

Passage reconstruction?

[ymnisky]

Originally Posted by konungursvia

Passage reconstruction?

You mean this one does not sound good?
Maybe the word 'passage' cannot have such meaning?
Perhaps it would be better: "text reconstruction", "dialog reconstruction", or "(something else) reconstruction" ?

[konungursvia]

Yes, they are good as well.

[ymnisky]

Originally Posted by konungursvia

Passage reconstruction?

By 'passage' I tried to mean:

"- An occurrence or event: “Another encouraging passage took place . . . when heads of state . . . took note of the extraneous factors affecting their economies that are beyond their control” (Helen Kitchen).
- A segment of a written work or speech: a celebrated passage from Shakespeare."
from passage: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com

or

"a usually brief portion of a written work or speech that is relevant to a point under discussion or noteworthy for content or style"
from passage - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Doesn't it apply here?

[konungursvia]

Yes, I just thought for a moment I had added a new one.

[orangutan]

Thanks for all these suggestions.

I was thinking of something like "reconstruction from notes". But that doesn't make it clear that the original input is aural.

I also like Ymnisky's "shorthand dictation". The trouble is that shorthand to many people means something different.