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A 14-year-old boy has scored an incredible 162 on an IQ test - higher than Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and Bill Gates - making him one of the cleverest people in the WORLD.

Brainbox Paulius Zabotka was entered into the Mensa brain test last month by his eager parents who were convinced their son was a mastermind.

But they were stunned when Paulius registered the staggering score which puts him in the “genius” bracket and in the top one per cent of intelligent people in Britain.

The brainy teenager achieved the highest score possible for under 18’s - two points higher than Einstein and Professor Hawking.

It means he has now been given the honour of being welcomed into Mensa - joining a network of the most brainiest people from across the globe.

IQ scores

Paulius, who is in Year 10 at Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College, in Worcester, said: “ I was really surprised and really happy when I managed to achieve such a high score.

“I really wasn’t expecting it. I was really over the moon.

“I hope I can carry on working hard at school and go on to study electrical engineering at Cambridge University.

“I like academic subject such as maths and science but I’m really into music, films and computer gaming as well.”

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Proud mum Egle, 38, said: “We saw they were doing Mensa tests in Birmingham and just thought Paulius should have a go.

“But we were amazed when he got the highest possible score.

“We always thought he was quite bright but we did not really think that would be the outcome.

“We were very pleased to say the least.

“We never thought he would get the score he did but it is fantastic. It’s a higher IQ than Stephen Hawking.”

Mensa say the average person scores around 100 and anything over 140 is considered to fall into the genius category.

Egle and her husband Viktoras, 37, said they first discovered the true extent of Paulius’ intelligence after they came to live in Worcester from Lithuania when he was five.

Egle, a data analyst, added: “After we came here from Lithuania he started school here in Year 1.

“The teachers said he was ahead of everybody. He became fluent in English within six months.

“He always had a good memory.

“At the age of eight, he was reading books and then would tell us all about dinosaurs, which professors discovered them, where, what university they were from.

“He was fascinated in everything.

“If he is interested in something, he will find out about it. He will just dig information out.

“He is actually very good at film.

“He likes to make and edit his own films and has a YouTube channel where he shares lots of the stuff he makes.

“He makes films about music, the top five musicians and top five films, and stuff about gaming.

He has started playing the guitar recently and is doing well at that too.

“Everything he does, he seems to be so good at.”