The Sun :A BRIT lad of 11 has a higher IQ than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, scoring within the top one per cent in the world.Young brainbox Aum Amin registered 162 – the highest possible score for someone under 18, and two points higher than the famous physicsgeniuses. The Year Six pupil sat Mensa’s IQ exam at Birkbeck, University of London, under supervised conditions in the first week of March and found out his phenomenal score a week later. Aum said: “I am very happy and feel proud to have achieved such a good score. I am looking forward to joining Mensa. “I always have put my 100 per cent efforts in the things I do and give my best shot. I keep my focus on the goal I want to achieve.” On the day Aum was the only child to sit the Mensa IQ exams designed to measure mental agility. Proud mum Boskey Amin said: “We were so proud when we found out he got the highest possible score, we couldn’t believe it. “He’s in the top one per cent of the world along with only 20,000 other people. “He’s always been a consistent child in terms of his education and we are really pleased.”We’re really proud of him but he knows we are motivated to keep him grounded, he knows he has a long way to go to follow in the footsteps of his heroes, Einstein and Hawking. He wants to take their work on to the next level. “He believes in stretching himself and always trying to learn something new, he sees everyday as a new challenge.” As well as being invited to join exclusive brain-box society Mensa, the clever youngster is also writing a fictional book, taking part in a Rubik’s Cube competitions, and competing against other geniuses in a tournament in May. Aum, of Wembley, north west London, is also a keen cricketer, an accomplished chess player, an avid Star Wars fan and researches history in his spare time.
