Online registration for admission in public and private medical and dental colleges for 2013-14 session begins today.
Interested candidates will be able to fill-up the necessary forms online on the website of the Directorate General of Health Services – www.dghs.gov.bd.
Students will have pay Tk600 as registration fee through Teletalk balance transfer.
The online registration form will remain open till September 18 and the admission test will be held on October 4. It will be a 100-mark test consisting of 100 multiple choice questions.
Questions will be set and marks will be allocated in the following order: physics 20, chemistry 25, biology 30, English 15 and general knowledge 10.
Professor Dr ABM Abdul Hannan, director (medical admission) of DGHS, said students who had come out successful in the 2010 Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations and 2011 or 2012 Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations would be able to apply. For applying, they must have aggregate grade point average (GPA) of at least 8. The aggregate is the sum of the GPA obtained in SSC and HSC examinations.
However, someone with a GPA of less than 3.5 in any of the examinations, would not be able to apply. Tribal and non-tribal residents of the hilly districts should have an aggregate GPA of 7, without any less than 3.5, for being eligible.
Five marks will be deducted from the scores of those students, who had already got admission a public medical college and would be sitting again for a better placement. 0.25 marks would be deducted for each wrong answer in the test, Prof Hannan said.
At present, there are 2,812 seats available at 22 government medical colleges in the country, while 55 private establishments offer 4,800 places. There are one public and 18 private dental colleges with 532 and 1,050 seats respectively.
