A BOY of 12 who attends Alec Reed Academy in Northolt has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Shivam Mehta’s IQ of 162 means he is now a qualified member of Mensa, the largest IQ society in the world, which only accepts those in the top two per cent of the population.
His achievement is all the more impressive because he missed a lot of time at school due to illness when he was younger.
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Shivam, who has survived leukaemia and cancer diagnoses, said: “I went from spending 90% of my time in bed as a young boy to getting brilliant results at school.”
He has been in remission since 2016 and has shown in tests that he is smarter than 99% of the population.
Shivam hopes to take up a career in science, philosophy or business.
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