For standard and advanced, the trend at recent is that there is a creative response for section 2, and every other essay has been an essay. Do you reckon this year we'll get a speech or a feature article for any of the essays?
i did a trial paper where the creative was actually to write a transcript for a speech, so it's not just the essay question where they could make it something different.
My teacher said every ~6 years they change the 'head examiner' who sets the papers and this is the first year of the new cycle, so he thinks that it will be fairly standard questions because the new person won't want criticism straight off the bat.