KUALA LUMPUR, April 8 — Former Malaysian Sharvin Jeyendran has been named by Mensa as Australia’s most intelligent adolescent, with an IQ score above that of noted physicist Stephen Hawking.
According to the 9News Perth programme, Sharvin obtained an IQ score of 168 in the intelligence organisation’s test, eight points above that of Hawking.
“When I grow up I want to be a biological scientist, I want to try find a cure for cancer,” he told the news programme.
“I also want to be a marine biologist to explore the seas and also have my own charity for all the poor people in the world.”
According to the report, the teen was originally from Malaysia, but migrated to Australia with his parents, who were both lawyers.
Mensa classifies individuals with IQ scores above the 98th per centile in standardised intelligence tests as geniuses. This variably translates to scores of above 132 on the Stanford–Binet scale and above 148 on the Cattell intelligence test.
The report did not state which particular intelligence scale was used to score Sharvin.
