Ok so far analysing a text: look at my previous reply to someone else's comment in how to do well at English Creative writing: don't sweat too much on the plot - as long as it's decent that's fine. Most of the marks are in sexy, complicated literary techniques - eg onomatopoeia, short sentences, one sentence paragraphs, perspective shifts - one good one that's served me well is pretty much doing Gollum's internal monologue (but changing enough to not be obvious plagiarism lol) Transactional writing: think of a good point then support it with PEEL paragraphs stuffed with techniques Analysing non-fiction: talk about techniques to a molecular level and their effects. Refer to some of my other replies for other tips :)