IN the years ahead, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) may begin to release its tests' results within the day of the exam or latest days after.

The Registrar, Prof. Adedibu Ojerinde, revealed the plan at the weekend during an interaction with newsmen as part of activities to mark 30 years of JAMB's establishment.

He said that the dream, which is to further strengthen JAMB's commitment towards checking examination malpractice and mutilation of results, is realisable following the success recorded when the agency released the last Monotechnics, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education examination results six days after the test.

He said: "We don't have to wait to be 40 before we celebrate our successes. It is true that 40 is the year of wisdom and there is a saying that a fool at 40 is a fool forever. That is why we must start preparing for JAMB at 40 because we don't want to be fools at 40.

"The last MPCE examinations results were released within six days after the tests were taken, but we are taking JAMB to the level when the exams results can be released at most two days after the tests are taken or even within the day of the exam.

"What it requires is that everyone should have his or her computer. Once the tests are written, the process of marking and grading will be completed within a very short time. Everyone should be able to operate the computer very well. "I am not saying that we are there now or that we will get there the next year, but we can get there in the next few years. We have started working on the plan and we will get there very soon."

There was also stocktaking on the road the tertiary institutions entrance examination body had trodden in the past 30 years. Special prayers were offered for the Board to carry on.

"We want to let the candidates, their parents and the society know that examination malpractice is bad. When someone indulges in exam malpractice, it is himself or herself, the immediate family, the society and the world at large the person is cheating," Ojerinde said.