My school bought the whole set of Bricks NEAT test prep books. I actually ended up not using them for my camp because my students' levels were just too high. Anyways they seem pretty good. They're divided up into the different skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) and there are two or three levels for each skill.

https://www.ebricks.co.kr/book/booklist.php?bookGubun=Series&bookCode=010342

My school has this file. 

These resources have been so helpful thanks! here's some pictures and not what that I found on the interwebs

My co-teacher sent me these image files of NEAT questions, specifically focussing on chart and graph descriptions. I cannot say what the source is since they were given to her by another teacher as well.

I'm sure they have, but I mean have they started talking about it in more detail?  Are they going to use you to get the students ready for it?  If not, have you been proactive about how you could be a part of it?  I have a month left here, so I'm trying to think of ways to be useful while I deskwarm today. 

If I saw my kids more often and in smaller groups, I would assign journals or even little books or articles to read. I think I could do articles - realia - but I just want my lessons to matter more to them and get them more invested.

Any ideas or accounts would be helpful.

Peace

We started last semester. My head teacher had me sit down with one of the certified teachers to ask questions about the speaking/writing part of the exam and how it works and how to score it. Then, I started giving NEAT practice exams once a month to students who volunteered. They would get some extra points for doing it. I also started using some the stuff in my classes, having them write more summaries, make storyboards to describe the pictures, have them create graphs and describe them, and ask them random questions.

My school bought the computer software for giving the NEAT practice exam. So, this coming semester, I will score all of these practice exams for the students. I'm pretty sure, only the speaking section. I HOPE SO. I'll also continue working with NEAT-like stuff in my classroom and Saturday school.

Also, keep in mind, there a difference between NEAT 2 and NEAT 3 (Neat  1 is not available yet). Simply put, NEAT 3 is for those who may come from technical HS. On this one, I think the advice giving it pretty tough as the students’ levels may be a little lower. NEAT 2 is for everyone else graduating from HS. The most difficult part of this one is describing a graph using more, less, most, and least. These can be real tough. Even though NEAT 2 and 3 share similar types of questions, the length of the response is different. NEAT 2 requires more depth while NEAT 3 may only require a 1 sentence response. When NEAT 1 is complete, it will be for professionals.  There I a chance that your students will have to take it, maybe just not in HS. It may be when they are about to enter the workforce.

I was asked to spend 5-10 minutes per class practicing NEAT style activities. I would make up my own questions based on the activities in The NEAT Essential test, and include 1-2 slides to practice it as well as a small handout for all the students to put into their notebooks. I'll attach an example. I wouldn't spend more than 5 minutes on it; the students had to look at the  chart/picture and answer 3 questions on it. There are only a few basic patterns for them to get used to int he Speaking text, so it's pretty easy to make stuff up. I always did it related to the topic of my class that day.

We started last semester. My head teacher had me sit down with one of the certified teachers to ask questions about the speaking/writing part of the exam and how it works and how to score it. Then, I started giving NEAT practice exams once a month to students who volunteered. They would get some extra points for doing it. I also started using some the stuff in my classes, having them write more summaries, make storyboards to describe the pictures, have them create graphs and describe them, and ask them random questions.

My school bought the computer software for giving the NEAT practice exam. So, this coming semester, I will score all of these practice exams for the students. I'm pretty sure, only the speaking section. I HOPE SO. I'll also continue working with NEAT-like stuff in my classroom and Saturday school.

Also, keep in mind, there a difference between NEAT 2 and NEAT 3 (Neat  1 is not available yet). Simply put, NEAT 3 is for those who may come from technical HS. On this one, I think the advice giving it pretty tough as the students’ levels may be a little lower. NEAT 2 is for everyone else graduating from HS. The most difficult part of this one is describing a graph using more, less, most, and least. These can be real tough. Even though NEAT 2 and 3 share similar types of questions, the length of the response is different. NEAT 2 requires more depth while NEAT 3 may only require a 1 sentence response. When NEAT 1 is complete, it will be for professionals.  There I a chance that your students will have to take it, maybe just not in HS. It may be when they are about to enter the workforce.

Thanks for the NEAT description. I had no idea.  I'll have more to bring to the teachers' meeting, should it happen.

Those are good ideas as well.  With school supposedly starting Monday, I hope my cp-teachers don't wait too long to get things going.  Lol, what am I saying?  Where am I?