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Arrum Sari, NIM: 1605020013, The Correlation of Simple Present Tense Mastery, Creative Thinking, and Ability In Writing Descriptive Text at The Eleventh Grade Students Of SMAN 13kabupaten Tangerang In Academic Year 2020/2021”. Mini Thesis, English Language Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Islam Syekh -Yusuf Tangerang. In this research there are some problems that the writer found in three of variables such as students do not understand to use the Simple Present Tense structure, Students are lack of creativity to create a text and the students not interested to writing. Beside, the main problem that the writer wanted to discuss is the importance of simple present tense mastery among the eleventh grade students of SMAN 13 Kabupaten Tangerang in order to develop the students’ skill, especially in writing a descriptive text. So in this research, the writer aimed to find out whether there is a correlation of simple present tense mastery, creative thinking and ability in writing descriptive text. The population of this study is eleventh grade students in SMAN 13 Kabupaten Tangerang which total 324 students. The writer used 77 students as a sample of this research which determined by using a sample random sampling. In this research, the researcher used quantitative descriptive method. There are three variables in this research, students’ simple present tense mastery as first independent variable (Variable X1) , creative thinking as second independent variables (Variable X2) and descriptive writing skill as dependent variable (Variable Y), the technique of collecting data was using tests and questionnaire. The findings of this research reveal that there is a significant correlation of simple present tense mastery, creative thinking and ability in writing descriptive text at SMAN 13 Kabupaten Tangerang 2020/2021. The result of showed Fcount is 5.974 with the value of significant 0.005. The result of F count is higher than the Ftable with level of significant 5% (n= 77, n-k-l) (df=77-2-1= 74) t table 3.12 at the table of appendix. F count higher than 3.12 (5.794 > F table 3.12). It means that Ha accepted and Ho rejected. The result can be concluded that Fcount > Ftable which there was a positive significant relation between simple present tense mastery, creative thinking and writing descriptive text at eleventh grade of SMAN 13 Kabupaten Tangerang. Keywords: Creative Thinking, Descriptive text, Simple Present Tense Mastery, and Writing Skill