An 11-year-old student has scored a higher IQ than two of the world’s most famous geniuses. Yusuf Shah’s friends in Leeds always tell him he’s very smart, but he wanted to find out for himself by taking the Mensa test. He scored 162 – the highest IQ for people under the age of 18, placing him in the top one percent of all people. Stephen Hawking is said to have scored 160 and Albert Einstein, who although never officially took the test, is believed to have the same. Yusuf celebrated his special achievement with a meal at Nando’s with his parents and siblings. He said: “I always wanted to know if I was in the top two per cent of people who take the test. “It’s special to have a certificate for me and for me.” Yusuf Shah with his brothers Zaki and Khalid, mum Sana and dad Irfan (Image: SWNS) The Year Six pupil hopes to study maths at Cambridge or Oxford and said he enjoys doing anything that stimulates his brain. When not studying, the math class enjoys sudoku and solving Rubik’s cubes. He started playing with the iconic cubes in January and it only took him a month to solve them with ease. His delighted mum Sana said: “I was so proud. He is the first person in the family to take the Mensa test. “I was actually a bit worried too. He always went to a room full of kids to take exams.
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“We thought he might have been terrorized by the adults at the centre. But he did great. I still tell him that, “your dad is even smarter than you.” We take it all in stride. “Even if you’re talented, you have to be the hardest worker.” Yusuf’s eight-year-old brother Khalid also hopes to take the Mensa test when he grows up. Contact our news team by emailing us at [email protected] For more stories like this, check out our news page.
