A brainy schoolboy who is obsessed with space took an IQ test and got a better score than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Julien Deleau-Lees was aged just ten when he passed with flying colours, scoring 162 - the maximum given to under-18s on the intelligence test.
He is now one of the youngest members of the genius club Mensa.
It means he has a higher IQ than German-born physicist Einstein and black hole theorist Stephen Hawking, whose scores were both around 160.
Julien Deleau-Lees was aged just ten when he passed with flying colours, scoring 162 - the maximum given to under-18s on the intelligence test.
He is now one of the youngest members of the genius club Mensa.
It means he has a higher IQ than German-born physicist Einstein and black hole theorist Stephen Hawking, whose scores were both around 160.
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00:00I'm Julian and I have an IQ of 162. I like maths and science, specifically space. I also
00:12like video games. My favourite ones are Fortnite and Guerrilla Tag, which is on the VR. When
00:19I grow up I want to be an astrophysicist, which is like studying space and physics.
00:25How do you feel about being one of the smartest people in school? I'm very proud of it. Why
00:30did you want to take the maths test? I was curious what I could get, how high I could
00:38get, what was possible for me to get. Hi, I'm Jade, I'm Julian's mum. I guess he's
00:46always been smart and able to do things and remember things and just loved doing anything
01:00to do with maths and science. It's sort of like recreational for Julian, so I always
01:05find that, not being like that myself, I kind of thought, well. But he just, it sort of
01:12comes very naturally, so it makes my life a lot easier because he's very autonomous,
01:18works on his own and I don't have to worry about that and helping him.
01:24He'd wanted to take the men's test since he was 8, so he was waiting until he was 10 and
01:29as soon as he was 10 he wanted me to get on and apply and put his name down. We went to
01:35Barbados and he just took it in his stride, I think it was about two and a half hours
01:38with a break. I just thought he was crazy, wanting to do an exam that long, which I think
01:45was one of the child, but he loved it, he wanted to do it, I think he likes the challenge.
01:53I was really pleased for him that he did so well and he got the highest score for a child,
02:00so he did really well. I don't push him now and everything he does comes from himself,
02:06so it's like going to the school he goes to, doing the 11 plus, doing the Mensa, it's
02:12like he's driving that train, you know, and it's very much down to him and if he gets
02:17off and wants to do something more artistic or change then that's fine with me. So no,
02:21I'm not pushing him at all, all of the push comes from his desire to challenge himself
02:27and I just facilitate and support that.