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By Rakshitha SinghSeveralscore well in the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) by Cambridge International, with many students scoring 90% and above. However, a 9-year-old boy has cleared the Class 10The results for the IGCSE (Class 10 equivalent), AS (Class 11) and A-Level (Class 12) exams were announced on Tuesday.Aarav Nallur, a Grade 4 student from TRIO World Academy wrote IGCSE 10th exam and has scored A grade in Mathematics. This is an unusual instance where a 9-year-old boy has cleared a 10th grade examination. Aarav wrote the Grade 10 examinations in May 2019 while he was studying in the 3rd grade. His high(IQ), when compared to the other kids of his age, made him appear for the examination.Divya Nallur, his mother said that she insisted the school to check his IQ and mathematical skills. That is when the mathematics teacher at the school discovered Aarav as an extraordinary kid and made him appear the 10th grade examinations.Aarav is also qualified to appear for the MENSA IQ test, which forms the top 2 percentile of high IQ persons across the world. His mother said, “He used to spend one hour every evening completely focused on Mathematics and on every Saturday his Maths teacher, who taught the 10th graders, would come to our house and teach him for two hours straight.” He secured 88 per cent in two of the Mathematics paper.