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10-year-old UK boy gets highest Mensa score of 162
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A 10-year-old \"ordinary\" boy in the UK has become one of the youngest people to achieve the highest possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test.
A 10-year-old "ordinary" boy in the UK has become one of the youngest people to achieve the highest possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test.
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Aahil Jouher, from Blackburn, got a perfect 162 on the Mensa test, a score which only one per cent of the population have achieved.
"I didn't expect to get that score. I just thought I'd get an average score," Aahil said.
After taking the test Aahil told his parents that he didn't feel he had done very well and said, "I could have done better".
"I was really quite surprised. I thought I was just like every other ordinary kid," he said after he got to know the results.
Aahil, whose favourite subjects are maths and science, spends his spare time inventing things, 'The Telegraph' reported.
"I want to be a scientist when I grow up. I like inventing things, most of the time they go wrong. I'm building a small computer at the moment, let's just say it's a work in progress," Aahil said.
His father, stroke consultant Dr Jouher Kallingal said that he and his wife Nabeela were surprised since Aahil had told them he didn't think the test had gone well.
"When we got the results I rang Mensa to ask what it meant and they explained he had got the top score of 162," Mr Kallingal said.
Mensa is believed to be the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. Membership is open to anyone who can demonstrate an IQ in the top 2 per cent of the population, measured by a recognised or approved IQ testing process.
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