A 10-year-old British girl achieved the highest possible score on a Mensa IQ test — beating out even renowned geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, according to a new report.
Freya Mangotra, of Moseley, a suburb of south Birmingham, took the test back in October at 10-and-a-half years old — the youngest allowed to sit for the exam, The Birmingham Mail reported.
Freya earned a 162 score in the Cattell III B test — which examines verbal reasoning, beating out Einstein, who is believed to have had an IQ of 160, and Hawking, with the same score, according to the report.
The result means that Mensa officials consider Freya “a genius,” her proud dad Dr. Kuldeep Kumar, a psychiatrist, told the outlet.
“They said it’s the highest you can get under the age of 18,” he said.
“I don’t want to put too much pressure on her but we knew from an early age, two or three, that she was gifted,” he added. “She grasps things very fast. She can concentrate very quickly and remember things — she only needs to read or do something once to remember. We are blessed.”
Freya is a voracious reader like her father, and mother, Dr. Gulshan Tajuria, who is studying for a Ph.D. in child development. The family once competed to finish reading all seven Harry Potter books.
“She beat me,” Kumar told the outlet. “We have to put a limit on her and say at 10 p.m. she has to stop reading. But she doesn’t need lots of sleep, she’s up easily at 6:30 a.m. for school.”
When Freya isn’t buried in a book, her hobbies include writing stories, drama and chess and she is also a black belt in Taekwondo, her family said.
She also enjoys swimming and Bollywood dancing.
It’s to be seen what Freya will do with her bright future.
“It changes,” Kumar told the outlet. “She wanted to be a doctor but then went off it. She wants to write, she likes stories but she also wanted to become a film director. She’s in the drama club at school and she directs plays at home. She’s still very young though.”
She attends the Blue Coat School in Harborne and has been offered a scholarship to a top private school, King Edward VI High School for Girls’ in Edgbaston.
Freya told the Mail that she’s encouraged both at home and at school.
“I love my school and I get my motivation from my school teachers,” she said. “My uncle Dr Kulbir Tajuria is my inspiration as he is very positive and trustworthy.”