'My daughter's 12 and has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe parents of a Manchester schoolgirl have a spoken of their amazement after a test revealed her IQ to be ‘higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking’.
Anwita Patil was just 11-years-old when she undertook an IQ test with Mensa, the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. “She got the highest possible score of 162 in her age category,” said shocked dad, Jay Patil.
This score places her higher than the results of the two famous physicists, both believed to have IQs of around 160. Anwita comes from a academic pedigree - the schoolgirl’s dad is an NHS consultant in Manchester, and mum Anu is a mathematician with a PhD in the subject.
But during her young life, she has wowed them with her natural intelligence. READ MORE: 'Claps don't pay the bills': Striking junior doctors tell of two-day waits for beds forcing them to the picket line Anu and daughter Anwita spend time doing maths problems together - and the mother realised there was something unusual happening when her little girl started beating her to the answers. “Right from primary school onwards, Anwita would be coming up with a few ways of solving problems that my wife doesn’t know.
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