Eleven year old beats Einstein and Hawking in IQ test
Arnav Sharma scored 162 in the Mensa exam setting a new benchmark
(Web Desk) - Arnav Sharma an 11-year-old boy scored a whole two points higher in a standardized IQ test than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. He excelled the genius benchmark which was set to 140 by remarkable 162 – the highest possible result someone can achieve on the paper.
This boy genius from Reading, England outshone one of the most difficult tests in the world with no preparation or an idea of how this standardized test’s paper looked like.
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A verbal reasoning ability section in the test, puts him on the top one percent of the nation in terms of IQ level.
During his interview to the Independent he said: “The Mensa test is quite hard and not many people pass it, so do not expect to pass.”
“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,” he said about the test which took him about two and a half hours.
Born to Indian parents, Arnav says he felt no anxiety before the test. “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.”
During the entire duration of the examination his mother, Meesha Dhamija Sharma kept her “fingers crossed”. “I was thinking what is going to happen because you never know and he had never seen what a paper looks like,” she explained.
She recalls, Arnav was genius and exceptional since he was a toddler. “At one-and-a-half years old I took him to India for a holiday to see his grandparents, his grandmother told me about him and said Arnav is going to do very well with his studies”. “I did not trust her, I just thought she was saying it to make me happy, but she was right,” Meesha Sharma added.
He was two and a half years old when his mother realized of his son’s true mathematical adroitness.
“He was counting up to more than 100. That was when I stopped teaching him because I came to know that there is no end to his numbers.”
Arnav who is currently attending Crossfields Schools, in his home town Reading, is now selected without any preparation for Eton College and Westminister, two of the highest competitive and sought-after schools in Great Britain.
This young eleven-year-old boy has countless talents and interests, he had a passion for singing and dancing, which led him into the semifinals of a local talent show. He also mentions his hobbies that includes coding, badminton, piano, swimming, and reading. He can also name all the capitals in the world.
Mensa’s spokesperson commended Arnav’s achievement, and stated: “It is a high mark which only a small percentage of people in the country will achieve".
Mensa is one of the oldest high IQ society in the world. A non-profit organization that is open to the people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence tests.
It is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world. To be the part of this organization, one must prove their IQ is on the top two percent of the nation.
Mensa’s mission is to: “identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity.”
Lancelot Lionel Ware, a scientist and a lawyer, and Ronald Berrill, an Australian barrister, were the founding fathers of Mensa which was established in 1946 and is now spread across the globe.
