The 11-year-old student who beat Einstein and Hawking on the Mensa IQ test

A student from Leeds achieved the highest possible score in a test Mensa – surpassing him Albert Einstein and the Stephen Hawking. The 11 year old Yusuf Shah recorded 162 – the most for children under 18 and the top rate of all people. Hawking is said to have achieved 160 and Einstein, who although never officially took the test, is believed to have achieved the same. Yusuf stated that his friends at school always tell him that he is very smart – and he wanted to test himself by taking the IQ quiz.

“Everyone at school thinks that i am very smart and I always wanted to know if I was in 2% of people who take the test,” said o pupil sixth form from Leeds in the Yorkshire Evening Post. To celebrate his achievement, Yusuf went to Nando’s for a meal with his parents and two younger brothers, Zaki and Khalid. The family celebrated with Nando’s Portuguese Style Chicken.

The sixth grader hopes to study mathematics at Cambridge or Oxford and stated that he likes to do anything stimulates his mindbroadcasts the NYpost. Shah and his parents had decided that he would prepare for the Mensa test while preparing for the high school applications, which included similar material. “It’s a difficult one test prepare yourself,” his father, Irfan Shah, told the newspaper. “We just did what we were already doing – nothing specific to the IQ test.” “I still tell him that ‘it’s your dad even smarter than you». … We take everything lightly. Even if you are talented, you have to be the hardest worker”said the father.

“Even in kindergarten, we noticed that he was learning the alphabet and things faster than other kids, but we just thought that some kids can learn the ABCs a little faster,” said the proud dad.

“He just has that natural talent in math and I guess that’s when we figured it out. Even his school teachers, whenever we get school reports, are excited, they say“There is nothing to teach”.