MOST INTELLIGENT CHILD IN THE WORLD

The 11 years old girl hailing from Barkingside, London has been officially declared to be smarter and brighter than the great geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. She got a big score on the Mensa Test, a famous intelligence test to measure IQ levels. She is Anushka Dixit, an Indian origin, from England. Anushka scored 140 on the test, which is 2 points higher than Stephen Hawking. She is really a genius child! Most of the participants in the test were older than her. With her score , she is now in the 1% category, joining the ranks of 'the most intelligent people on earth.'

Anushka said in an interview after the test. "One part was 28 questions in four minutes. It just boosted my self confidence after passing the 11 plus and that made me want to sit the Mensa Test. I got full marks. I was definitely quite shocked at that. I started to cry after the test finished because I thought that I might have got one of the non-verbal questions wrong. I was aiming for 162 but I was still shocked."

Anushka the 11 years old has already passed her 11 plus exams, a prominent secondary school test in the UK. Her mother, after she winning the laurels said, "Anushka would copy words from TV adverts, and that's how she sharpened her memory since childhood. She also started to talk just when she was six months old."

When Anushka was one year old she could remember the names of all countries in the world alongwith their capitals.

Anushka, meanwhile, hopes to concentrate on her studies as she has big hopes for the future and wishes to become a prime minister one day.

(Indebted to E TIMES of The Times of India as up dated on July 5, 2019)

K V George