12-year-old Rajgauri Pawar has scored a staggering 162 in the British Mensa IQ test. The score beats the estimated score of Albert Einstein and that of Professor Stephen Hawking, who scored 160.
The score had landed Rajgauri in the elite British Mensa membership for high IQ talents around the world.
“I am just feeling on top of the world and cannot explain in words. It is an honour for me to represent India on foreign soil and achieve such a feat.” Rajgauri said.
Her father, Dr. Surajkumar hails from Baramati, Pune and is a research scientist at the University of Manchester said that at present there are only 20,000 such individuals exist across the globe; out of which about 1,500 are children.
“My daughter with a top 1% score leads the tally, making her one of the youngest to achieve such a feat,” Pawar said.
The 12-year-girl admitted that she was nervous before the test. “But it was fine and I’m really pleased to have done so well.”
“I would like to pursue medicine in the future and am also inclined towards topics including Physics, Astronomy and Environment,” she said, adding that swimming, netball and chess were among her favourite sports.
Rajgauri further said: “I was preparing for entrance exams for secondary schools. I secured admission at Altrincham Girls Grammar School, which is one of the coveted institutions in the United Kingdom, and my parents suggested that I attempt the British Mensa IQ test. Anyone above the age of 10.5 years can take the test. As it was something different and was like a competition across all age groups, it sounded interesting and worth focusing on.”
The test was more about an aptitude test, evaluating the non-verbal reasoning of the candidate. “Hence, it was challenging. The test was kind of a mixed bag, easy at the beginning and got tough at the end. The key difficulty was to complete the test in time. So you are basically judged based on your skill set to manage time and the correctness of your answers,” the 12-year-old said.
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