10-year-old in UK gets highest Mensa score of 162

 A 10-year-old “ordinary” boy in the UK has become one of the youngest people to achieve the highest possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test.

<g data-gr-id="29">Aahil</g> <g data-gr-id="30">Jouher</g>, from Blackburn, got a perfect 162 on the Mensa test, a score which only one <g data-gr-id="31">per cent</g> of the population have achieved.

“I didn’t expect to get that score. I just thought I’d get an average score,” <g data-gr-id="22">Jouher</g> said.

After taking the <g data-gr-id="27">test</g> <g data-gr-id="28">Jouher</g> told his parents that he didn’t feel he had done very well and said, “I could have done better”.

“I was really quite surprised. I thought I was just like every other ordinary kid,” he said after he got to know the results.

<g data-gr-id="32">Jouher</g>, whose favourite subjects are maths and science, spends his spare time inventing things, ‘The Telegraph’ reported. “I want to be a scientist when I grow up. I like inventing things, most of the time they go wrong. I’m building a small computer at the moment, let’s just say it’s a work in progress,” <g data-gr-id="33">Jouher</g> said.

His father, stroke consultant Dr Jouher Kallingal said that he and his wife Nabeela were surprised since <g data-gr-id="25">Jouher</g> had told them he didn’t think the test had gone well.