Yusuf says he took the test after friends told him how 'smart' he was.
An 11-year-old boy from Leeds has scored the highest possible Mensa test score for under 18s.
Yusuf achieved 162 on the test which is more than the late physicist, cosmologist, and author Prof Stephen Hawking who is believed to have achieved 160.Yusuf said he celebrated his result with a meal out with his family. "Everyone at school thinks I am very smart and I have always wanted to know if I was in the top 2% of the people who take the test," he said.He said he hoped to go on to eventually study mathematics at Cambridge or Oxford.His mum Sana said the family were very proud of him."I was actually a little concerned too - he has always gone into a hall full of kids to take tests.She said the family took it light-heartedly and she warned her son his father was "still smarter".
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