After Jiya Vaducha, another Indian origin girl, 11-year-old Anushka Dixit from Barkingside, London,, scored 162 points, the highest possible marks in the Mensa IQ test. Her score is well above the 'genius' score of 140 and two points higher than Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. Her mother Arti, 45, said her only child has always been bright, and started talking when she was just six months old.
She begged her mother to let her sit the tests because she was after a new challenge having passed her 11 plus exams with flying colours. And despite being the youngest person in the exam, she got the highest score, putting her in the top 1% in the world in terms of intelligence. Anushka said: 'It was not very difficult, just slightly difficult. It was only the time pressure that was difficult. One part was 28 questions in four minutes.”
Anyone over the age of ten and a half can take the Mensa Supervised IQ test. 'I got full marks. I was definitely quite shocked at that. I started to cry after the test finished because I thought that I might have got one of the non verbal questions wrong. I was aiming for 162 but I was still shocked.' When Anushka took the test, she was surrounded by people in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s.
With the score Anushka received, she now qualifies for Mensa membership, also known as the High IQ society. 'My favourite subject is English and I love poetry,' said Anushka, who is a keen dancer. 'When I grow up I would like to become a doctor.' Eleven -year-old Jiya Vaducha from Pinnerwood school also scored 162 marks in the Mensa's IQ test recently.
