Monday, January 29, 2018

Some people aren't afraid of their own IQ.

"Morning Papers"

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

January 27, 2018

London: A 10-year-old Indian-origin boy in the UK (click here) has become the youngest applicant in a decade to achieve the highest score in the Mensa IQ test, (click here) beating geniuses like Albert Einstein, Hawking.

Mehul Garg, also known by his nickname Mahi, decided to take the test to follow in the footsteps of his older brother, 13-year-old Dhruv Garg, who had also scored the highest score of 162 last year.

“Mahi is fiercely competitive. His older brother had achieved the same score last year so he really wanted to prove that he is no less intelligent than his brother,” said his mother Divya Garg.

The pupil of Reading Boys Grammar School in Reading, southern England, scored the maximum score of 162 to become a member of Mensa, the High IQ Society.

His score is two points higher than Einstein and Hawking and places him in the top one per cent of people in the world who achieve this distinction.

“Mehul said the paper challenged his language skills, including analogies and definitions, and his sense of logic,” said his mother....