Deactivating a week before HSC exams, helped me a lot to memorise my four English essays I must say.
But during my HSC years, I had a lot of self control, so I didn't need to deactivate it for the entire time, although a knew a friend that did. Depends on whatever suits you. Whatever makes you...
I got a band 6 in IPT and still stuffed up quite a few multiple choice questions. ;) You'll do fine, as long as you know 90% of the dot points. Even better if you know them all.
Aim for Band 4 or higher. Band 3s at minimum. You seem like a pretty capable person. Should be fine for you. Try a few atar calcs to see what you need to get roughly:
http://www.atarcalculator.com.au/
http://www.matrix.edu.au/atar-calculator/
Nice post, and nice mix of backgrounds :D Looks like a basic introduction course to programming. Should be great for any beginners out there.
*I highly recommend trying it out if you're planning to take a degree or do any further study in IT, comp sci, software/comp/telecom/ICT engineering.
Make sure your maths levels (i.e. trial marks) are strong for engineering / comp sci co-ops. And that everything is submitted on time and that you attend the interview, preferably with previous projects you've worked on, e.g. spare time projects or HSC Major projects. Also you need 96 or higher...
I highly recommend you take a look at this thread: http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=290332, I have replied with an in-depth comment about Computing degrees in general.
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aha, I can agree with some comments made here. Many of the first year IT subjects at UTS are very common sense based, and shouldn't be subjects in the first place. There are a lot of business / IT subjects. E.g. What is a requirement, how do we define one, what diagrams do we use to...