A teenage girl by the name of Neha Ramu scored a 162 on Mensa's IQ test giving her a higher score than such noted geniuses as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking and putting her in the brightest 1% of people in the country, according to the Telegraph.
Any score above 140 is considered to be genius level. Ramu scored the highest possible score for a person under the age of 18. Her parents didn't realize just how smart their daughter was until she received a perfect score on her entrance exam for Tiffin Girls', according to the Telegraph.
"At first I didn't really realize what she was capable of as she wasn't being stretched at school and when she joined primary school in the UK in year three we didn't really understand the system," Ramu's mother Jayashree said. "But then when she got the result for the entrance exam for Tiffin Girls', I thought, 'OK, maybe she does have something special in her and I'm just not realizing it.'"
The Ramu's moved to the UK from India when Ramu was seven. Both parents are ophthalmologists and Ramu also sees herself in the medical field, although as a neurologist. Instead of spending her summer out of the classroom Ramu went to a three week long camp in the U.S. where she studied the brain for seven hours a day, according to the Telegraph.
Despite having such a high IQ Ramu doesn't really see herself as any different from everyone else.
"I don't really think I'm clever, I think I just have a high IQ, but that doesn't really mean that I'm clever," Ramu told the BBC. "Some people think that I study loads and stuff, but I don't really at all, I just like relax and do basic stuff."
Ramu also understands that all of the praise that she has received for her IQ score means very little if she doesn't back it up with hard work.
"Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein, they've achieved so much that I couldn't even dream of achieving, so it's not right to compare me to them just cause of my IQ, if I don't put in my effort and make use of my IQ there is no point in having it."
An interview with Ramu conducted by the BBC can be seen here.
