This 11-year-old Indian boy has higher IQ than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking!

Pic Courtesy: The Independent

New Delhi: Though it is hard to believe but it's true. Arnav Shrma, an 11-year-old Indian-origin boy living in the United Kingdom, has higher IQ than geniuses like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

According to AIR News, Sharma has secured 162 points on a Mensa IQ test, two points higher than Einstein and Hawking.

This child prodigy hails from Reading town in southern England.

Indian origin #ArnavSharma in UK secures top possible score of 162 on Mensa IQ test, 2 points higher than #AlbertEinstein & #StephenHawking pic.twitter.com/c5Ktl7j7VT — All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) June 30, 2017

Sharma reportedly cleared the infamously difficult test a few weeks back with zero preparation.

The scores obtained by him in the exam, which primarily measures verbal reasoning ability, had put him in the top one percent of the nation in terms of IQ level, according to The Independent.

"The Mensa test is quite hard and not many people pass it so I did not expect to pass," Sharma said.

"I took the exam at the Salvation centre and it took about two and a half hours," he recalled, adding there were about seven or eight people there. A couple were children but the rest were adults.

Sharma said that he was not anxious before taking the test although he had not prepared for it.

Arnav's mother Meesha Dhamija Sharma too kept her "fingers crossed" during the exam.

"At one-and-a-half years old I took him to India for a holiday to see his grandparents, his grandmother told me about him and said Arnav is going to do very well with his studies," she said.

Meesha further said that it was not until he was two-and-a-half years old that she became aware of his mathematical prowess.

In recognition of his ability, Sharma, who studies in the Crossfields School on the outskirts of Reading, has been selected for Eton College and Westminster, both highly competitive and sought-after schools.

Interstingly, Arnav's talent is not restricted just to numbers. The wonder kid is equally passionate about singing and dancing.

Mensa is believed to be the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. 

Its membership is open to anyone who can demonstrate an IQ in the top 2 percent of the population, measured by a recognised IQ testing process.

It was founded in 1946 in Oxford by Lancelot Lionel Ware, a scientist and lawyer, and Roland Berrill, an Australian barrister, but the organisation later spread around the world.