A 13-year-old Fife girl has joined Mensa after getting the same IQ score as Albert Einstein.
Eve Wedderburn, who attends St Leonards School in St Andrews, was invited to join the society after getting test results that placed her within the top 1% of the population.
She was asked along to an official testing centre after scoring 160 in a Mensa test in a tin she was given as a Christmas present.
The result placed her alongside Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and even Einstein, who are all thought to have an IQ of 160.
Mensa is an organisation for people with an IQ in the top 2% of the population.
Eve, of Mountquhanie House, near Cupar, said: “I got the test in a tin for my Christmas and got quite a good result from that. Parts of the main exam were quite tricky, such as the picture tests, but some parts I did find easy.”
Keen student Eve, whose dad is a farmer and mum runs a holiday cottage business, said she enjoys studying maths and English at school, but also likes taking part in sports and doing art.
And she admitted she was shocked to hear that she had been compared to a genius like Einstein.
“I didn’t think I would do so well and just thought I would do okay, so I was quite amazed when I heard that I had been compared to someone like Albert Einstein,” she said.
“I’ve not really decided what I want to do in the future, but I know I would like to go to university.”
Eve also bettered her mum Louise, who sat the test on the same day.
Louise joked: “I was in the top three per cent and she was in the top one so the fact that mum didn’t get in makes it even better for her!
“She is fairly embarrassed and modest about it so hasn’t told anyone at all, but we are proud of how well she has done at what started out as just a bit of a laugh.”The boy done goodYoung Eve and I have tried to answer the question that even Albert Einstein himself couldn’t find a solution to, writes Graham Gibson.
Who is more intelligent? A member of Mensa or a former professional football player?
That’s right, in a former life I used to kick footballs about for a living and it was my duty to uphold the mental dexterity of those who play the beautiful game.
So when I heard that Eve was being compared to Einstein, I had a little chuckle to myself. After all, how clever can she be if she’s as smart as Doc Brown’s dog from the Back to the Future movies?
When a kind colleague of mine explained that it was actually the world’s most famous boffin, that’s when the sweat started pouring down my brow.
The heart palpitations reached new levels when I discovered that Mensa quizzes didn’t actually have a keepy-uppy round!
So I signed up for the British Mensa online workout, and after multiple guesses and a few stabs in the dark I received a score that actually invited me along to do a Mensa supervised IQ test.
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You can try it too. Visit: www.mensa.org.uk/workout