2013 curriculum encourages the senior high teachers to successful develop Higher Order Thinking (HOT) assessment in the teaching and learning process. Therefore, this study is conducted to investigate the preliminary research of developing project-based-speaking assessment to stimulate the students' critical thinking and creativity in English learning. This study uses descriptive qualitative method at SMA N 15 Semarang. The data are gathered through observation, interview, and questionnaire which are aimed to know the existing of the implementation of HOT project assessment. The first results indicated that the English teacher never gave and developed project-based-speaking assessment to stimulate the students' critical thinking and creativity in English learning. The teacher got difficulties in constructing items for HOT speaking assessment and arranging the learning instruments as the needs of the implementation 2013 curriculum. Likewise, the students also never did any speaking project in English learning, and they often got bored during the teaching and learning process. In conclusion, both English teacher and students never did any project-based-speaking assessment in English learning.