Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

Amidst parents pushing their children to crack the IITs and IIMs, this 10 year old boy has gone one step ahead and beat the likes of Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein at the Mensa IQ Test by two points.

Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world and is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. By acing this test, 10 year old Mehul Garg has become the youngest applicant of the test and member of the Mensa society which consists of the top 1 percent of such people all over the world.

Mehul also nicknamed as “Mahi” has a competitive spirit and has always wanted to prove that he is as intelligent if not more as his elder brother Dhruv Garg who had given the test last year and had passed with flying colors. According to his mother Divya Garg who is elated by the achievement- “His older brother had achieved the same score last year so he really wanted to prove that he is no less intelligent than his brother.”

Divya stated that Mehul found that the paper challenged his language skills, including analogies and definitions, and his sense of logic. After his results came out, Mehul said, “I was in tears when I got the results back”. Even though the kid is extremely studious and has toiled hard for the results, he claims that his passion still remains cricket and ice-skating. Later in life, Mehul wants to head a technology giant like Google.

Both Dhruv and Mehul are the students of Reading Boys Grammar School in Reading in southern England and are also involved in various other activities apart from academics. They are currently working on an app which aims to reduce social isolation and loneliness by connecting neighbors to each other.

By sampada