That score placed her in the top one percent of the population.
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Lydia Sebastian, who studies at the Colchester County High School, lives in England with her parents. “She used to say a few words to me on the phone”.
Hailing from the south Indian state of Kerala and settled in Langham, Essex in the United Kingdom, Lydia’s parents, who are astonished with the achievement of their daughter, said that they really have done nothing special with her as they have fairly laid-back view about education.
“At first, I was actually nervous however as soon as I began, it was a lot simpler than I anticipated it to be after which I relaxed”, stated Lydia.
“We were surprised by how well she did”, her father, radiologist Arun Sebastian, told Mic.
In all the test had 150 questions with a maximum score of 162, for kids under 18 years of age.
Lydia, from Langhma, Essex, completed the Cattell III B paper – which examines language skills, including analogies and definitions, and her grasp of logic – with time to spare when she sat it at Birkbeck College in London over the school holiday. At the ripe age of 12, she’s blasted through the seven books of the “Harry Potter” series a full three times. According to her father she started talking when she was just six-month old.
The youngest member is two-and-a-half years old, while the oldest is 103.
But when the younger Sebastian does figure out what she wants from her life and career, the odds are that she’ll be pretty damn good at it.
“Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking got an IQ of 160”.
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Other notable peeople reported to have qualified for Mensa membership include TV presenter Carol Vorderman, journalist Bill Buckley, Adrian Moorhouse, the Olympic swimming champion, and Roger Squires, the Guinness World Record crossword compiler.
