Nagpur: An 11-year-old boy Akhilesh Chandorkar from Nagpur has scored an astonishing 160 in Mensa, the oldest high IQ society in the world.
The feat has seen Chandorkar now being compared to some extraordinary personalities of history and has joined the league of Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Both Hawking and Einstein are thought to have an IQ of 160.
“My parents were aware of the Mensa IQ test but and it’s only when I reached the minimum participation age, that is 10 years, they asked if I am interested in appearing for the test. I agreed,” said Chandorkar.
On asking about the preparation of the IQ test, Chandorkar replied, “I started preparing three months before the exam. During vacations also, I kept reading books.”
Chandorkar felt that the question paper was easy though second paper was more time consuming.
“I was expecting to get 140 marks in paper one while I was doubtful about second paper two. I was shocked when my parents revealed that I scored 160 marks,” he said.
Chandorkar attended the test when he was on a family trip to Scotland in June.
The Mensa IQ test can be taken by children aged over ten and a half years and consists of two separate sections.
The first section deals with verbal reasoning skills, while the second is the image-based Culture Fair Test in which he scored 142.
Membership is open to anyone who can demonstrate an IQ in the top 2 per cent of the population, measured by a recognised or approved IQ testing process.
