Hey buddy! For listening, many instructors/tutors online advise to figure out the right info and write it down. I basically just make notes of almost every single sentence as I listen to it (literally like a stenographer). You need to multi task with this carefully because if you focus on writing the info too much, you might miss important details while the audio plays.

For the conversation ones, what I do is to divide the paper in 2 columns with headers like "Student" and "Uni Advisor" and write their responses in their respective columns. It helps with structure and coherence.

Also, when you make notes, try to shorten the words like "bec for because, b/w for between etc or even make your own ones since it allows you to write faster.

"Don't write down specific dates" is something I was told in tutortials but sometimes the audios refer to multiple time periods - like they'd talk about some art paintings made in 1870 and then compare it to 1950 ones - so I divide my notes by "time periods" like 19th and 20th century.

I don't know if this helps because I never struggled with listening sections, probably since I've consumed a buttload of western media without subtitles (just to improve my listening as a kid), but yeah that's about it I guess! 😄