June 30,2017:

He appeared in the Test with absolutely no prepration.

An 11-year-old Indian-origin boy in United Kingdom has secured top possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test, two points higher than the geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, making him one of brainiest children in the country.

Arnav Sharma, from Reading town in Southern England, passed 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 the verbal reasoning ability, puts him in the top one per cent of the nation in terms of the IQ level.

“Mensa test is quite hard and not many people pass it so do not expect to pass,” Sharma added.

“I took the exam at Salvation Centre and it took about two and a half hours,” he further added.

There were about seven or eight people there. There were couple were children but the rest were adults.

Meesha Dhamija Sharma, his Mother, said that,”It was not until he was two-and-a-half years old that she became aware of his mathematical prowess”.

 

Arnav Sharma, attends Crossfields School on outskirts of Reading, has been selected for the Eton College and the Westminster, both highly competitive and sought-after schools, with no preparation.

 

Mensa is believed to be the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. Membership is open to anyone who can demonstrate an IQ in the top 2 per cent of the population, measured by a recognised or approved IQ testing process.

It was founded in 1946 in Oxford by Lancelot Lionel Ware, a scientist and lawyer, and Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, but the organisation later spread around the world.

Source - PTI