A 10 year old boy of Indian origin in the UK has become the youngest applicant in the last decade to achieve the highest score in the Mensa IQ test, beating geniuses and icons like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Mehul Garg, also known as Mahi, decided to take the test after his older brother, 13-year-old Dhruv Garg, who had also scored the highest score of 162 last year.
The pupil of Reading Boys Grammar School in Reading, scored the maximum score of 162 to become a member of Mensa, the High IQ Society. His score is two points higher than Einstein and Hawking, placing him in the top one per cent of people in the world who has achieved this distinction.While Mahi loves cricket and ice-skating, his subject is mathematics. He wants to head a major tech company like Google when he grows up. He enjoys solving the Rubik's cube under 100 seconds and is also pursuing higher grades in playing the drums.
But he and his brother also find time to pursue other projects and are currently raising funds to build an app to reduce social isolation by connecting neighbours with each other, a newspaper reported.He is now working towards his participation in the 'Child Genius 2018' show on Channel 4 after being shortlisted among the top 100 candidates for this year. Mother Divya Garg told the PTI, "Mahi is fiercely competitive. 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. "Mehul said the paper challenged his language skills, including analogies and definitions, and his sense of logic. I was in tears when I got the results back."My both sons are currently working on social projects and want to give something back to the society, to make the world a better place. They are passionate young men with an ambition to make a difference in the world around us. Their online fund raising page has already attracted over 1,300 pounds. And I hope really they continue like this forever.”
