Tara Sharifi, an 11-year-old student at Aylesbury High School, recently took the Mensa IQ test in Oxford, scoring significantly above the “genius benchmark” of 140. She achieved a score of 162, surpassing both Einstein and renowned cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking by two points.
Tara expressed her ambition to pursue “something related to mathematics” in the future. Her father, Hossein, shared his surprise and pride in her accomplishment, stating, “I am extremely proud but very surprised at how well Tara scored. I thought she might do well when we watched TV and she answered math questions before the contestants. I knew she was very smart, but I didn’t expect such a high IQ.”
