Two Ethiopian students have scored 100% in their university entrance exams - and are being lauded online.

Sifan Fita got her top marks for maths and Koket Tesfaye in physics - a difficult feat that is rarely achieved.

"I knew the maths exam was a more difficult than other subjects, so I invested my time wisely and studied hard,” Ms Sifan, who comes from western Oromia and plans to study software engineering, told the BBC.

Her school head, Abebe Zewdie, told the BBC the mark was arguably the highest ever attained by a female student in the exams.

Mr Koket has plans to study construction engineering.