The Life Baker computer-based test centre holds 250 high-speed workstations. It is one of the largest facilities of its kind attached to any school in the state.
Scale matters for a practical reason. A school with thirty machines has to run an examination in shifts, over days. A school with 250 can seat an entire cohort at once, which means every candidate sits the same paper at the same time under the same conditions.
It is also why the Rising Stars competition could be run on our own equipment rather than in a hired hall.
The room is backed by a heavy-duty inverter system with zero-second switch-over, so a grid drop does not cost a candidate their paper. Anyone who has sat a computer-based examination in Nigeria will understand why that matters.
Outside examination periods the centre carries JAMB practice, internal assessments, and the evening and Saturday courses of the Computer College.