Eleven-year-old Yusuf Shah of England took the Mensa IQ test on a whim – and scored the highest possible score of 162, according to local news. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are estimated to have IQs of around 160. “Everyone at school thinks I’m very bright and I’ve always wanted to know if I was in the top 2% of people who take the test,” the sixth-former from Leeds told the Yorkshire Evening Post. According to the report, Shah, a student at Wigton Moor Primary School, passed the test. The family celebrated with Nando’s Portuguese Chicken. Shah and his parents had decided that he would prepare for the Mensa test while preparing for high school applications, which included similar material. “It’s a tough test to prepare for,” 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 ‘your dad is even smarter than you.’ … We take everything lightly. Even if you are talented, you have to be the hardest worker,” Dad said. Yusuf’s dad jokes: “I still tell him that ‘your dad is even smarter than you.’ Yorkshire Post / SWNSYusuf Shah with brothers Zaki and Khalid, mother Sana and father Irfan.Yorkshire Post / SWNS Yusuf – who wants to study maths at Oxford or Cambridge universities – has shown signs of genius from a very young age, Irfan told LeedsLive. “Even in kindergarten, we just noticed that he was doing the alphabet and things faster than other kids, but you just thought that some kids might pick up the ABCs a little faster,” the proud dad said. “He just has this natural talent for math, and I guess that’s when we figured it out. Even his school teachers, whenever we get school reports, they are amazing, they say, “There is nothing to teach.” “
