At the age of just 3, Sherwyn Sarabi has an IQ of 160. His reading age is 9 years and 5 months. Courtesy: Amanda M/YouTube

HE may not share the same shock of wild white hair or have the clutch of prizes and published papers to his name but surprisingly this four-year-old boy has something else in common with the Nobel prize-winning scientist Albert Einstein.

Sherwyn Sarabi managed to stun psychologists after racking up an incredible score of 160 on an IQ test - the highest mark possible, the Mail Online reports.

It's the same mark attributed to Einstein, and is also identical to the IQ scores of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

Sherwyn, who lives in Barnsley, spoke his first words at the tender age of ten months and has been amazing his parents, teachers and doctors ever since.

He was able to speak in full sentences when he was just 20 months old - and by the time he reached his second birthday, Sherwyn had learnt to identify every country in the world.

The toddler could also recognise and read out up to 500 words as well as describe all the major organs of the body and their functions. Astonishingly, he was able to count to 200, identify a huge variety of shapes and explain the science behind volcanoes and shooting stars.

In recognition of his remarkable gifts, Sherwyn was made a member of Mensa when he was just three years old. His extraordinary intelligence has also meant that the little boy started school two years early after gaining the maximum score in an IQ test, 160 marks on the Wechsler Scale, the Mail Online reports.

While many children start school at the age of five, Sherwyn started this year when he was three years old, and is already studying work meant for eight- and nine-year-old children at Rastrick School in Huddersfield. Educational psychologist Dr Peter Congdon said: 'Sherwyn has a very superior level of intelligence, he is incredibly gifted and his vocabulary is out of this world.

'His intellect reaches the highest possible levels of reason and when he talks to you he has the social skills of a much older child.' He added: 'His mental age is measured at eight years and nine months, which is more than twice his actual age. It is very unusual for a child to have this type of intelligence, he came out at the very top of all the IQ tests.

'I specialise in specially gifted children but when I tested Sherwyn I knew I had come across something very special.' Sherwyn's mother Amanda Sarabi, a former teacher, said: 'He is a very happy healthy child and he loves to talk.

'He questions everything and I have been doing my best to answer all of his questions to the best of my knowledge.

'His general knowledge is amazing for a four-year-old, I think it's because of all the questions he asks all day long.' She added: 'Sherwyn has read over 190 books and his favourite is the encyclopedia as he loves learning new things.' Sherwyn's top IQ score places him alongside 12-year-old Agnijo Banerjee from Dundee, who this year passed his Higher maths exam in the summer - a full four years ahead of schedule.

Agnijo is thought to be among the youngest people in Scotland to have passed the exam.

And as a child member of Mensa Sherwyn also joins fellow child genius Shrinidhi Prakash, who became the Under-12 World Scrabble Champion this year. Shrinidhi appeared on a program about child genii alongside Josh Altman, from North London, who is now the chess player ranked number five in the world out of everyone under the age of ten. He regularly beats adult players and has already won more than 50 medals and trophies.