The admission tests for medical and dental colleges under the academic session of 2016-17 will be held on October 7 and November 4 respectively as the government has decided not to take combined exams for the MBBS and BDS course this year.The decision, which was based on the Dhaka University’s proposal, was taken due to difficulties to manage the huge number of students in the combined test.In order to be eligible for the exams, students must have a minimum GPA 9 score with the SSC and HSC exams combined.According to the health ministry, there are 3,729 seats in 36 public medical colleges, while 6,155 in 64 private medical colleges for the MBBS course.Besides, nine public dental colleges have 635 seats for the BDS course while 24 non-government dental colleges have 1,385 seats.