London: A 10-year-old boy achieved an IQ score of 162, becoming one of the top 1% of intelligent people across the world. The British boy, Krish Arora surpassed an IQ score of 160, belonging to Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, Metro reported.
Krish has been accepted into Mensa, a stimulating, intellectual and social society' and he will be joining the prestigious Queen Elizabeth's School in September.
Krish had scored 100 % marks in maths and said that 11-plus exams were too easy. He, who is waiting to start at his new school, said that primary school is boring and he didn’t learn anything. He said that all they do there is multiplication and “write sentences all day”, while what he likes is doing algebra.
A resident of Hounslow, West London, Krish excels in music, apart from academics. He had won awards as a pianist and was inducted into the prestigious Trinity College of Music’s “Hall of Fame”, after he completed four grades in just six months. He also holds a grade 7 piano certification, for exceptional musical talents.
Krish had won several musical competitions in West London, where he won against contestants who were four years more senior than him. He has impressive qualities of reciting comp[lex instrumentals from memory, and does not require sheet music. His parents say that he can remember entire songs on piano from memory.