London: when today time we often examples Kids with Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, it will be real to witness a kid with such caliber Mehul Garg nicknamed to be Mahi has proved it. Yes, 10years boy of Indian Origin in the UK has become youngest applicant in a decade to achieve the highest score in the Mensa IQ test said to beating geniuses like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. He decided to take the test to follow in the footsteps of his older brother, 13-year-old Dhruv Garg, who had also scored the highest score of 162 last year. However his score is two points higher than Einstein and Hawking and places him in the top one percent of people in the world who achieve this distinction.
His proud mother said “Mahi is fiercely competitive. His older brother had achieved the same score last year so he really wanted to prove that he is no less intelligent than his brother.” His mother also added” Mehul said the paper challenged his language skill, including analogies and definitions, and his sense of logic”. The pupil of Reading Boys Grammar School in Reading, southern England, scored the maximum score of 162 to become a member of Mensa, the High IQ Society.
The anxiety of the time-pressured exam did make the 10year-old extremely nervous but cheered on by his father, Gaurav Garg; he relaxed after he had solved the initial few questions. “I was in tears when I got the results back,” Mehul said after he got the results this week.
His passion include cricket and ice-skating, the schoolboy whose favorite subject is mathematics has ambitions of heading a major tech company like Google. He enjoys solving the Rubik’s cube less than 100 seconds and is also pursuing higher grades in playing the drums. But currently he and his brother team up to find time to pursue other projects and are currently raising funds to build an app to reduce social isolation by connecting neighbors with each other “We are passionate young men with an ambition to make a difference in the workaround us,” they write on their online fund raising page, which has already attracted over 1,300 pounds. “They both are currently working on social projects and want to give something back, to make the world a better place.
And I hope they continue on this path always. For me this is more important than their marks,” said their mother.
Mehul is also working towards his participation in the ‘Child Genius 2018’ show on Channel 4 after being shortlisted among the top 100 candidates for this year news as per PTI.