Aahil Jouher, from Blackburn, got a perfect 162 on the Mensa test, a score which only one per cent of the population have achieved.
"I didn't expect to get that score. I just thought I'd get an average score," Jouher said.
After taking the test Jouher told his parents that he didn't feel he had done very well and said, "I could have done better".
"I was really quite surprised. I thought I was just like every other ordinary kid," he said after he got to know the results.
"I want to be a scientist when I grow up. I like inventing things, most of the time they go wrong. I'm building a small computer at the moment, let's just say it's a work in progress," Jouher said.
His father, stroke consultant Dr Jouher Kallingal said that he and his wife Nabeela were surprised since Jouher had told them he didn't think the test had gone well.
"When we got the results I rang Mensa to ask what it meant and they explained he had got the top score of 162," Kallingal said.
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