Leeds: Boy, 11, beats Hawking's Mensa score

An 11-year-old lad from Leeds has scored the highest imaginable Mensa trial people for nether 18s.

Yusuf achieved 162 connected the test, which is much than the precocious physicist and writer Prof Stephen Hawking, who is believed to person achieved 160.

He said helium had taken the quiz aft friends astatine schoolhouse had commented connected however "smart" helium was.

Yusuf celebrated with a repast retired with his family, saying: "It feels peculiar to person a certificate."

"Everyone astatine schoolhouse thinks I americium precise astute and I person ever wanted to cognize if I was successful the apical 2% of the radical who instrumentality the test."

He said helium hoped to spell connected to yet survey mathematics astatine Cambridge oregon Oxford.

When not studying helium enjoys Sudoku and solving Rubik's cubes.

His mum Sana said the household were precise arrogant of him.

"He is the archetypal idiosyncratic to instrumentality the Mensa trial successful the family," she said.

"I was really a small acrophobic excessively - helium has ever gone into a hallway afloat of kids to instrumentality tests.

"We thought helium mightiness beryllium intimidated by the adults astatine the centre, but helium did brilliantly."

She said the household took it light-heartedly and she warned her lad his begetter was "still smarter".

Yusuf's begetter Irfan said it had been a hard trial for his lad to hole for.

"We conscionable did what we were already doing - thing circumstantial for the IQ test," helium said.

Yusuf's occurrence could beryllium a household matter arsenic his eight-year-old member besides hopes to instrumentality the Mensa trial erstwhile helium is older.