Aspiring doctor Azmain Talukder has become the first Australian Islamic College student in the school’s 32-year history to achieve a “perfect score” on his Year 12 exams.

He is one of 17 WA students who attained an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 99.95 — the highest possible.

The 17-year-old said when he first saw his results he yelled for his parents to come and look, then checked again several times to make sure it really was his name next to the exam scores.

“Honestly, it hasn’t really sunk in for me yet that I’ve got this,” he said.

“Everyone’s calling me and congratulating me and I’m just in a state of shock.”

Azmain was born in Bangladesh and his family moved to Australia when he was three.

Both his parents are engineers and he credits them with his passion for mathematics. As well as two maths subjects, he studied physics, chemistry and English.

When Azmain was 10 he decided he wanted to become a doctor, after he stumbled across a video about surgeons helping people with ear and eye problems to see or hear for the first time.

“The raw emotion, the happiness that you see, was something I wanted to bring to people,” he said.

Although he hopes to go to the University of WA, he has applied to every medical course in the country to increase his chances.

The Wattle Grove teen started at AIC in Year 3.

In Year 8 he won a place at academically selective Perth Modern School but found the daily travel to Subiaco too difficult, so returned to the college in Year 10.

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Deputy principal Rana Al-Baghdadi said the college, which is spread across three campuses, was very proud of Azmain’s achievements.

Six of the other 16 students to achieve perfect scores were from public schools — five at Perth Modern and one at Willetton Senior High School.

The other students were from Methodist Ladies’ College (4), Christ Church Grammar School (3) and one each from All Saints’ College, St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls and Hale School.

One international student who attended Shenton College also achieved the top score.