Indian-origin boy Arnav Sharma gets 162 IQ points, more than Einstein and Hawking

Arnav Sharma, an 11-year-old Indian-origin boy in the United Kingdom, secured the top possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test.

Sharma secured two points higher than physicist Albert Einstein and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, making him one of the brainiest children in the country.

The Indian-origin boy passed the infamously difficult test a few weeks back with zero preparation. In fact, he had never seen what a typical paper looked like before taking it.

Sharma’s score 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.

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

Notable people with high IQ level

Sharon Stone (IQ: 154)

Sharon Stone is an American actress, voice actress, film producer and former fashion model. She was always an academically bright student and entered second standard at the age of five.

Stephen Hawking (IQ: 160)

Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity and the theoretical prediction that black holes emit radiation, often called Hawking radiation. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

Despite of being diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, which has paralyzed him completely, his brain had recorded an IQ of 160.

Albert Einstein (IQ: 160)

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. The Nobel laureate developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.

Judit Polgar (IQ: 170)

Judit Polgar is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so. She is the only woman to qualify for a World Championship tournament. She is the first, and to date, only woman to have surpassed the 2700 Elo rating barrier.

Kim Ung-Yong (IQ: 210)

Kim Ung-yong is a Korean civil engineer and former child prodigy. He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ". However, Guinness retired the "Highest IQ" category in 1990 after concluding IQ tests were too unreliable to designate a single record holder.

Manahel Thabet (IQ: 168)

Manahel Thabet is a Yemeni scientist, economist and consultant. She is a part of the top 0.1% of highest IQs of the world. She is the youngest person and the only Arab to ever attain such distinction.

About Mensa

• Mensa is believed to be the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world.

• Its 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.

• The society was founded in 1946 in Oxford by Lancelot Lionel Ware, a scientist and lawyer, and Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister.