To assess whether general English and EST courses enable the university students of Medical Sciences to achieve the defined course objective(s), this study focuses, on the assessment of reading skills of dentistry students. Fifty seven (57) students of dentistry having passed both general - and EST courses are given directions to answer 35 items in 30 minutes. The tEST consists of three reading passages. The first passage is a cloze tEST with 21 multiple-choice items; section two a reading comprehension tEST followed by 9 multiple-choice items. Finally, the third one is a selected paragraph of a recent dentistry article followed by 5 True/False statements .The analysis of the qbt51ined data shows that only 43.9% of the students could score 10 or above (from possible 20). This pattern of results shows that the majority of students are not proficient enough in understanding EST texts in dentistry.