A 12-year-old Indian-origin girl in England, who secured two points higher than geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in the British Mensa IQ test, has been invited to join the coveted society as a member.
Rajgauri Pawar appeared in the British Mensa IQ Test in Manchester last month, and scored 162 the highest possible IQ for someone under the age of 18. She has been invited to join the coveted Mensa IQ test with the highest possible score. Ms Pawar of Cheshire county is among the one per cent of those who sit in the Mensa test and achieve the maximum mark, with the 'genius' benchmark set at 140. She secured 162, two points higher than Einstein and Hawking.
She is one of only 20,000 people to achieve the score worldwide, Mensa said. "I was a little nervous before the test but it was fine and I'm really pleased to have done so well," Ms Pawar said. Pawar joins the elite British Mensa IQ Society as a member after her great performance. Her father Dr Surajkumar Pawar said, "This wouldn't have been possible without the efforts of her teachers and the support which my daughter enjoys every day at school". She studies at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls, which also expressed pride at her achievement. "Everybody is delighted. She is a very well-liked student and we all expect great things from her," said Andrew Barry, her maths teacher.
Can you crak the Mensa test? Try answering these questions.
1. If two typists can type two pages in two minutes, how many typists will it take to type 18 pages in six minutes?
2. If it were two hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were an hour later. What time is it now?
3. Pear is to apple as potato is to: (a) banana, (b) radish, (c) strawberry, (d) peach, (e) lettuce.
4. Continue the following number series with the pair of numbers below that best continues the series: 10 3 9 5 8 7 7 9 6 . . .
(a) 11, 5; (b) 10, 5; (c) 10, 4; (d) 11, 6.
5. Which of the following is least like the others? (a) poem, (b) novel,
(c) painting, (d) statue, (e) flower.
6. What is the following word when it is unscrambled: HCPRAATEU
7. What is the number that is one half of one quarter of one tenth of 400?
8. Which of the sentences below means approximately the same as the proverb: ``Don`t count your chickens until they are hatched.``
(a) Some chickens have double yolks, so you can`t really count eggs and chickens.
(b) You can`t walk around the henhouse to count the eggs because it will disturb the hens and they won`t lay eggs.
(c) It is not really sensible to rely on something that has not yet happened and may not ever happen.
(d) Since eggs break so easily, you may not be accurate in your count of future chickens.
9) The same three-letter word can be placed in front of the following words to make a new word: ---light, ---break, ---time.
ANSWERS:
1. Six typists. One typist types one page in two minutes.
2. 9 p.m.
3. b: Both grow in the ground.
4. a: Alternate numbers go up by 2 and down by 1, starting with 1 and 10. 5. e: The only one that is not an artistic work made by a person.
6. PARACHUTE
7. 5
8. c
9. DAY