Dedicated listening was the most rare form that we would have of assignments. But, we used it in the interviews to comprehend the questions.

The tricky part about listening is not to get too tied up in listening of every single word if you are struggling. If you can get the verb subject and predicate you can make an excellent inference on what the intended person was trying to convey. But, again speed of the speaker is extremely hard because in the begging we are trying to process every word.