The admission test for medical colleges under 2022-23 academic sessions will be held on Friday.
"A total of 139,217 applicants will compete for 11,122 seats in the medical college admission test this year, meaning 12 students will fight for each seat," said Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque at a press conference on Thursday.
There are 4,350 seats in public medical colleges and 6,772 in the private medical colleges, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, he added.
The test will be held from 10am to 11am simultaneously at 19 centres of 57 venues across the country, including the capital city Dhaka.
He said a group of specialist physicians and teachers prepared the question papers maintaining the highest confidentiality.
All the candidates must enter the examination centres by 9:30am.
Bringing mobile phones, calculators, watches and any electronic device has been prohibited to the centres while students will be allowed to carry pens along with admit cards during the admission test.