I hope you don't mind if I borrow this thread to ask a related question of mine that's been bugging me for a year (my teacher didn't know the answer very well).
My question is... Are we allowed to use the dictionaries during the Listening & Responding section??
The HSC timetable says "Dictionaries may be consulted during reading time and during the examination" but I kinda need confirmation that that includes Listening. And I'm quite sure that last time we did Listening (trials?), I asked the teacher if we could use them and he said no! Which is why I'm suspecting he's giving us the wrong advice.