A 4-year-old boy in the UK, who has become a member of the Mensa Club, the world's high-IQ club, has been able to say the names and alphabets of all 50 states in the United States in three different languages.
The 4-year-old boy had an IQ of 154
The bright boy, named Yitzhak Miller, had an IQ of 154, making him one of the top one percent of the highly intelligent group in that age group. He met the entry requirements for Mensa at the age of 3 and has now won a place at the club.
The gifted four-year-old taught himself two books and was able to write the English, Greek and Arabic alphabets without any Greek or Arabic background at home.
Yitzhak's 32-year-old mother, Michelle Nelson, said Yitzhak just liked language and that he had asked his parents to buy himself a book on the Russian alphabet.
Yitzhak, whose reading ability is 7 years and 10 months, and his mathematical ability is almost equivalent to that of a 6-and-a-half-year-old child, received an offer letter from Mensa last month.
Nelson, a secondary school teacher, said: "Yitzhak was my only child and I was shocked one day when I found out he could read. People are amazed that such a young child can read. ”
Yitzhak can also count to ten in Spanish, know the order of all the planets, and spend time placing alphabetic blocks according to the corresponding items.
Since the Mensa exam is not suitable for children under 10 years of age, they must achieve an independent assessment as prior evidence of the application. But Yitzhak is not the youngest member of the Mensa club, the youngest member ever joined at just two years and four months.
About Mensa Club
Mensa's English name is "MENSA", which means "round table" in Latin. Mensa is taken from the Round Table in the hope that people with similar IQs can sit together as equals. Mensa is the name of the world's top IQ club, founded in 1946 in Oxford, England, by lawyer Roland Berry and scientist and lawyer Lance Welling. At that time, these two people who thought they were very intelligent had a whim and compiled some difficult questions to test their IQ, which was widely sought after. Excited, Beryl and Verin simply set up a club to call on highly intelligent people to join.
More than half a century of development has made Mensa the best, largest and most successful IQ club in the world. As a super club, it has more than 100,000 members in 100 countries around the world. In addition to Antarctica, more than 40 countries on all continents have branches.
Apart from high IQ, Mensa's members can be said to have no other characteristics. The only way to take Mensa is to take the exam and stand out – either by taking the Mensa exam or by reaching a maximum of 2% on other Mensa-mandated IQ tests.
