An 11-year-old boy has scored higher in an IQ test than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

The so-called genius benchmark is set at 140 and Arnav Sharma gained a score of 162 - the maximum possible result you can achieve on the paper.

It is a whole two points higher than German-born theoretical physicist Einstein and celebrated cosmologist Hawking.

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