UK boy, 11, receives highest possible Mensa IQ score - New York Post

Brilliant, kiddo!

Eleven-year-old Yusuf Shah of England took the Mensa IQ trial connected a whim — and earned the highest imaginable people of 162, according to section quality reports.

Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are estimated to person had IQs of astir 160.

“Everyone astatine schoolhouse thinks I americium precise smart, and I person ever wanted to cognize if I was successful the apical 2% of the radical who instrumentality the test,” the sixth-grader from Leeds told Yorkshire Evening Post.

Shah, a pupil astatine Wigton Moor Primary School, glided done the test, according to the report.

The household celebrated with Nando’s Portuguese-style chicken.

Shah and his parents had decided that helium would hole for the Mensa trial portion prepping for high-school applications, which included akin material.

“It is simply a hard trial to hole for,” his father, Irfan Shah, told the paper. “We conscionable did what we were already doing – thing circumstantial for the IQ test.”

“I inactive archer him that ‘your dada is inactive smarter than you’. … We instrumentality it each lightheartedly. Even if you are talented, you person to beryllium the hardest worker,” the dada said.

Yusuf’s dada jokingly says, “I inactive archer him that ‘your dada is inactive smarter than you.’ ” Yorkshire Post / SWNS

Yusuf Shah with brothers Zaki and Khalid, parent Sana and begetter Irfan.Yorkshire Post / SWNS

Yusuf — who wants to survey mathematics astatine Oxford oregon Cambridge universities — has shown signs of genius since helium was precise young, Irfan told LeedsLive.

“Even successful nursery, we conscionable noticed that helium was doing the alphabet and things quicker than different children, but you conscionable thought immoderate kids whitethorn prime up the ABCs a spot quicker,” the arrogant papa said.

“He conscionable has this earthy flair for math, and I conjecture that’s erstwhile we benignant of realized. Even his schoolhouse teachers, each clip we get schoolhouse reports, they’re amazing, they say, ‘There’s thing for america to teach.’ “