{"id":8242,"date":"2015-06-08T13:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/08\/10-year-old-162-mensa-score\/"},"modified":"2015-06-08T13:13:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:13:36","slug":"10-year-old-162-mensa-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/08\/10-year-old-162-mensa-score\/","title":{"rendered":"10-Year-Old 162 Mensa Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>British Boy Scores Record Test Result<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/Aahil%20Jouher-458x191.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A 10-year-old British boy has achieved the highest-ever score on the Mensa IQ test. After getting his results, Aahil Jouher, from Blackburn, became the youngest person to achieve the accomplishment and puts him in the 1% of the world\u2019s population who have gained the result. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>According to the 10-year-old, he enjoys reading and wants to be a scientist when he is older and \u201cloves to invent things in his free time.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI like inventing things, most of the time they go wrong. I\u2019m building a small computer at the moment; let\u2019s just say it\u2019s a work in progress.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>However, Aahil said, \u201cAfter taking the test, he felt he could have done better. \u201cI could have done better\u201d. \u201cI was really quite surprised. I thought I was just like every other ordinary kid.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Father, Dr Jouher Kallingal, said he hadn\u2019t expected him to do so well. \u201cWe decided to send him for the test when he was 10-and-a-half. When we got the results I rang Mensa to ask what it meant and they explained he had got the top score of 162.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe had not wanted him to worry so we only told him about it the day before so he wasn\u2019t under any pressure. I told him where to look at some practice papers, but I doubt very much he looked at them. When we found out the score, we just think it is absolutely wonderful.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Boy Scores Record Test Result &#13; A 10-year-old British boy has achieved the highest-ever score on the Mensa IQ test. After getting his results, Aahil Jouher, from Blackburn, became the youngest person to achieve the accomplishment and puts him in the 1% of the world\u2019s population who have gained the result. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}