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13-Year Old Indian Origin Boy Gets Top Score In Mensa IQ Test:- A 13-Year old Indian-origin boy, Dhruv Garg from Wokingham in south east England, in the UK, has got the highest possible score on a Mensa IQ Test.

The little lad has scored 162, placing him in the top one per cent people in the world who achieved this feat. Dhruv during the summer holidays was looking for something to occupy his time and that is when he had decided to try out for the intellectual society. To combat social isolation, Garg has also been developing an app, by helping lonely people meet up. The app connects people who live in the same area who want to meet new people.

“I was just so surprised to get the result. I was looking for something to do over the summer holidays and so I thought I’d try taking the test, but did not expect to do so well,” he said. “I’m really looking forward to the new school year, I really like school and want to use the app to help people,” Garg said.

His mother, Divya, said the whole family is proud of their young prodigy, whose favorite subjects are maths and chemistry. Garg goes to Reading School, a grammar in Berkshire. “When he got the maximum score they told me it’s the highest mark possible but I didn’t realize what it meant. It was only when I spoke to Mensa that they told me I said ‘oh my God’ this is special, this is really something worth celebrating,” she said.

Garg is a keen cricketer and table tennis player. He can even complete a Rubik’s Cube in under 100 seconds.

“In year one was when we started to realize he was gifted as his teachers said he was very sharp and had to have special lessons, so all along he was always special. He is an avid reader and reads a lot of journals,” Garg’s mother said.

Mensa is believed to be the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. Anyone who can demonstrate an IQ in the top two per cent of the population, measured by a recognized or approved IQ testing process, membership is open to them.

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