Pune:  Muskan Abdullah Pathan, who topped the ICSE Class X examination with 99.4 per cent, said she was surprised and overwhelmed after checking the result online.

"Until eighth standard, I did not even appear in the top five, but in the ninth standard, I stood first in the school. Thereafter, I started getting good marks," said Muskan, a student of Hutchings School, Pune.

Muskan, a swimmer and a badminton player said she wants to choose a career in medicine.

Her father Abdullah is a software engineer and mother Shakira a doctor.

Muskan and Bengalurus Ashwin Rao have scored 99.4 per cent to top the ICSE Class X exam.