An Eleven-year-old Muslim girl Tara Sharif has set a new record for the highest IQ with an outstanding score of 162 points. With the new intelligence benchmark, the girl has left behind world-renowned scientists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Little Tara Sharif is an Iranian school girl who studies at UK’s Aylesbury High School. Recently, she made to headlines for getting a remarkable result on her Mensa IQ test, the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world.
The Mensa IQ test needs to be answered within a set time and focuses on the student’s ability to understand the meanings of words.
Tara took the non-verbal test in Oxford, United Kingdom, and successfully comprehended the meanings of words and answered all the questions within the allotted time.
The eleven-year-old shocked the organizers of the test when she scored unprecedented 162 points. The result puts Sharif well above the “genius benchmark” of 140. Tara herself was surprised by the achievement.
“I was shocked when I got the result. I never expected to get such a good score,” Tara told an English News agency.
Tara’s 162 points score has left being Stephen Hawking, the World’s smartest human being with an IQ of 160, by 2 points. While Einstein never took any test, his IQ is also estimated to be 160 points, rendering Tara the most intelligent person in the world.
According to Tara, it was a joint decision between her and her parents to take the test. Her father Hossein Sharif says that he is extremely proud of his daughter though he had an inkling of her intellectual prowess.
“I figured she might do well when we watched TV and she would get maths questions before the contestants. I knew she was very clever but I did not think she would have such a high IQ,” said Hossein Sharif.
Tara has now qualified for Mensa membership aka the High IQ Society and is very excited to join. She says she wants to pursue a career related to mathematics.
“It will be a wonderful opportunity to meet other people within the Mensa system. I have told some of my friends at school and they were really impressed.”
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