An Indian-origin boy in the United Kingdom scored an astonishing IQ of 160 on a Mensa IQ test, which is two points higher than the IQ of renowned world geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, making him one of the top brainiest children in the nation.

11-year-old Arnav Sharma from Reading passed the one the most difficult test a few weeks back with zero preparation and had never seen what a typical IQ paper looked like before taking it.

His marks puts him in the top one percent of the nation in terms of the IQ level.

"The Mensa test is quite hard and not many people pass it so do not expect to pass," Sharma said.

"I took the exam at the Salvation centre and it took about two and a half hours," he recalled, adding there were about seven or eight people there. A couple were children but the rest were adults.

Sharma did not get nervous before taking the test: "I had no preparation at all for the exam but I was not nervous. My family was surprised but they were also very happy when I told them about the result."

His mother Meesha Dhamija Sharma said that she kept her "fingers crossed" during the test.

"I was thinking what is going to happen because you never know and he had never seen what a paper looks like," she explained.

"At one-and-a-half years old I took him to India for a holiday to see his grandparents, his grandmother told me about him and said Arnav is going to do very well with his studies," she said.

Arnav was 2-and-a-half-years old when his mother became aware of his mathematical prowess.

"He was counting up to more than 100. That was when I stopped teaching him because I came to know that there is no end to his numbers," she said.

She also said that his father is "quite clever as well but not as clever."

Sharma has been selected for Eton College and Westminster with no preparation.

His talents are not restricted to numbers only, as he also possesses passion for singing and dancing. He reached the semi-finals for Reading's Got Talent for dancing with a Bollywood act when he was eight.

"It is a high mark which only a small percentage of people in the country will achieve," a spokesperson for Mensa said.

Founded in 1946, Mena is believed to be the oldest high-IQ society in the world. It is open to anyone who can demonstrate an IQ in the top 2% of the population.

It was founded by a scientist and lawyer Lancelot Lionel Ware and an Australian barrister Roland Berrill, but the organization later spread around the world.

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