Brilliant, kiddo!
Eleven-year-old Yusuf Shah of England took the Mensa IQ test on a whim — and earned the highest possible score of 162, according to local news reports.
Albert Einstein a♉nd Stephen Hawking are estimated to have had IQs of around 160.
“Everyone at school thinks I am very smart, and I have always wanted to know if I was in the top 2% of the people who take the test,” the sixth-grader from Leeds told .
Shah, a student𒊎 at Wigton Moor Primary 𒉰School, glided through the test, according to the report.
The family celebrated with Nando’s Portuguese-style chicken.
Shah and his parents had decided that ಞhe would prepare for the Mensa test while prepping for high-school applications, which included similar material.
“It is a difficult test to prepare for,” his father, Irfan Shah, told the paper. “We just did what we were already doing – nothing specific for the IQ test.”
“I still tell him that ‘your dad is still smarter than you’. … We take it all lightheartedly. Even if you are talented, you have to be the hardest worker,” the dad said.
Yusuf — who wants to study math at Oxford or Cambridge universities — has shown signs of genius since he was very young, .
“Even in nursery, we just noticed that he was doing the alphabet and things quicker than other children, but you just thought some kids may pick up the ABCs a bit quicker,” the proud papa said.
“He just has this natural flair for math, and I guess that’s when we sort of realized. Even his school teachers, every time we get school reports, they’re amazing, they say, ‘There’s nothing for us to teach.’ “