An 11-year-old Iranian high school student in the United
Kingdom is making headlines for getting a remarkable result on her Mensa IQ
test that even surpasses those of great thinkers such as Albert Einstein and
the late Professor Stephen Hawking.
Tara Sharifi, a student at Aylesbury High School, recently
took the Mensa IQ test in Oxford where she scored well above the “genius
benchmark” of 140.
The 11-year-old student scored 162 points on the test, which
is two points ahead of Einstein, a theoretical physicist who is considered as
one of the two pillars of modern physics, and famous cosmologist Professor
Stephen Hawking.
The Mensa IQ test, which needed to be answered within a set
time, focused on the student’s ability to understand the meanings of words,
according to Iran Front Page.
“I was shocked when I got the result – I never expected to
get such a good score,” Sharifi said.
With the score she received, Sharifi now qualifies for the
Mensa membership, which is also known as the High IQ society.
“It was a joint decision between me and my parents to take
the test,” the girl said. “It will be a wonderful opportunity to meet other
people within the Mensa system. I have told some of my friends at school and
they were really impressed.”
She also added that when she becomes older, she would pursue
“something related to mathematics.”
Her father, meanwhile, admitted that he was surprised by the
result, but was proud of what his daughter achieved.
“I am extremely proud but very surprised at how well Tara
scored,” her father, Hossein, said, Bucks Herald UK reported. “I figured she
might do well when we watched TV and she would get maths questions before the
contestants. I knew she was very clever but I did not think she would have such
a high IQ.”
Featured image via Iran Front Page
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