11-year-old boy beats Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking on the IQ test

On the MENSA IQ test, an 11-year-old Leeds boy received the highest possible score of 162. Here's all we know on the subject.

11-year-old boy beats Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking on the IQ test
11 year old boy beats in IQ test

11-year-old Yusuf Shah got the highest score on Mensa, one of the most prestigious IQ tests. With an IQ of 162, the British Muslim youth surpassed the famous physicists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Einstein and Hawking are thought to have an IQ of 160.

11-year-old boy answered 15 questions in the exam. Although he was told that he had three minutes, the boy who understood it in 13 minutes acted slowly while solving the questions. Despite this misunderstanding, he reached the maximum score set for the under-18s.

11-year-old boy beats Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking on the IQ test

Shah, a sixth grade student at Wigton Moor Primary School in Leeds, said: Everyone at school thinks I'm very smart. And I always wanted to know if I was in the top 2 percent of test takers. Shah, who wants to study mathematics at Oxford or Cambridge universities, said that he is also interested in geography and flags. “It is a difficult test to prepare for,” his father, Irfan Shah, told to press. “We just did what we were already doing – nothing specific for the IQ test.”