11Yo Gets Higher IQ Test Score Than Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking
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An 11-year-old boy scored higher in an IQ test than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
The so-called genius benchmark is set at 140 and Arnav Sharma gained a score of 162 - the maximum possible result you can achieve on the paper.
It is a whole two points higher than German-born theoretical physicist Einstein and celebrated cosmologist Hawking.
Arnav, from Reading, passed the infamously difficult test a few weeks back with zero preparation and had never seen what a typical paper looked like before taking it.
His mark in the exam, which primarily measures verbal reasoning ability, puts him in the top one per cent of the nation in terms of IQ level.
"The Mensa test is quite hard and not many people pass it so do not expect to pass," Arnav confidently told The Independent from his home in Reading.
"I took the exam at the Salvation center and it took about two and a half hours," he recalled. "There were about seven or eight people there. A couple were children but the rest were adults. It was what I thought it would be."
Arnav, who is of Indian origin, insisted he was not anxious before sitting for the test, saying: "I had no preparation at all for the exam but I was not nervous. My family were surprised but they were also very happy when I told them about the result."
Arnav, who attends Crossfields School on the outskirts of Reading, has been selected for Eton College and Westminster, both highly competitive and sought-after schools, with no preparation.
Source: The Independent, Edited by website team
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