Girl, 11, has higher IQ than Einstein

Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell has scored the maximum on a Mensa test at age 11, making her smarter than Stephen Hawking and Einstein. Picture: Snapper Media. Source: Supplied

Physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein. Source: Supplied

THE smartest person in Britain isn't an Oxbridge professor or BBC boffin, it's an 11-year-old girl with huge aspirations.

Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell scored the maximum of 162 on a Mensa IQ test in July, ranking her smarter than Einstein and Stephen Hawking, the Wall St Journal reports.

She took the test with her father Dean, 45, who works as a lawyer, with the only goal of beating his score of 142.

"When I was applying to Mensa he said "oh I'm already in Mensa, Cerys", he was like showing off a bit, so it's good that I got my own back on him,' she told Metro.

Her dad thought she initially "fluffed it" after completing the test so quickly, but was thrilled with her results.

"I was expecting her IQ to be upwards of 145, there's no doubt about that, but to actually hit the maximum it was a surprise. We're all really excited and proud of her,' he said.

The score ranks her above theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking when it comes to brains. Source: News Limited

The Northampton schoolgirl shrugged off comparisons with great intellects like Einstein and Stephen Hawking, saying you "can't really judge someone on their potential" but also has some huge aspirations.

"I like working with numbers, so I think I would like to work for a bank. Or even one day become the governor of the Bank of England," she told The Daily Express.

The 300-year old central bank has never had a woman at the helm, with only four female members of the Monetary Policy Committee in the last 16 years.

It's a far cry from the US situation where Janet Yellen is widely tipped to take over from Ben Bernanke and one third of the 12 members of the monetary policy committee are female, according to the Wall St Journal.

Cerys's dream could become a reality, with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney recently telling the BBC the bank had plans to grow the number of female economists at every level of the industry.

Her parents are now deciding whether to let her to live a normal life or whether to "push her intellectually."

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