Student, 17, with a higher IQ than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking who is taking 28 A-Levels calls for more support for gifted pupils as she admits teachers struggle to keep up with her
A girl with an IQ of 161 who is taking 28 A-Levels is calling for more support for gifted pupils as she admitted that teachers struggled to keep up with her.
Mahnoor Cheema, 17, from Slough, said that when she arrived in Britain aged nine from Pakistan, her school refused to let her move up a year.
Despite quickly getting through her class work set by teachers at Colnbrook Church of England Primary School in Berkshire, the teenager said she was given extra maths instead of being allowed to progress to the next stage of her education.
Ms Cheema said the institution also put her in a group set up to encourage children to make friends, where they would make pancakes, she told The Times.
The school girl has an IQ as high as Albert Einstein’s and is taking 28 A-Levels after passing 33 GCSEs.
When she moved to Langley Grammar School, she claimed teaching staff would actually try to discourage her from sitting her GCSE exams.
They claimed that Ms Cheema was overburdened and had ‘dark circles’ under her eyes.