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February 12th, 2013, 23:01 GMT · By

16-Year-Old Girl with an IQ of 161 Likes Getting Dressed Up, Going Out

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A 16-year-old girl from Essex County in the UK has stunned her teachers and parents alike by scoring big at a recent IQ test.

According to the Daily Mail, Lauren Marbe recently took the Mensa-supervised Cattell III B test at her local high-school, and it revealed that her IQ was higher than Albert Einstein’s.

In fact, it has been recorded at 161, which is one point lower than the maximum a person under 18 can score.

Lauren counts performing in the West End in an Andrew Lloyd Webber show among her accomplishments so far.

As she plans to attend Cambridge and study architecture, she intends to take A-Levels in art, physics and mathematics after the GCSEs.

She confesses she is very much interested in art and performing, but also takes pride in her appearance.

“I love my fake tan and fake nails as well so I guess I am a bit of an Essex girl in that sense. […] I love living in Essex and I'm glad that I might be able to show people that we aren't all ditzy and blonde,” she says.

“Living in this area there is a lot of pressure to be the stereotypical Essex girl but she has real nice support from the other girls.

“Essex girls are all well groomed and Lauren isn't any different. Her and her friends like to go out and get dressed up in nice clothes,” her mother, Sue, adds.

She is proud of her daughter’s results and describes that her teachers have been caught by surprise by the test scores.

“Obviously I am really proud. I am quite shy and I don't like boasting but I am really pleased that she has done so well.

“All her teachers have been coming up to her and saying they didn't realize how intelligent she actually was,” Sue says.
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Comment #1 by: crkeller on 12 Feb 2013, 23:38 UTC reply to this comment

absolutely amazing!!!

Comment #1.1 by: pw on 13 Feb 2013, 10:48 GMT

Yes, but can she make me a sandwich?


Comment #2 by: Linda on 13 Feb 2013, 02:10 UTC reply to this comment

what's the point of a high IQ if you waste it like this girl apparently has done


Comment #3 by: little beach girl on 13 Feb 2013, 02:31 UTC reply to this comment

Obviously, she avoided her mother's grammar . "Her and her friends" - wrong!!!!! "She and her friends". Congratulations on Cambridge - at least she won't have to travel too far from Mum.


Comment #4 by: SAM on 13 Feb 2013, 02:46 UTC reply to this comment

It makes me wonder how so many educators did not notice her abilities before this one test.
This story needs some further investigation in my opinon. Was she not a good student with a great GPA.? What were here scores on the appitude test given during her elementary thru high school years.

Has she taken the PSAT, or ACT or ASVAB.?
If she is a genuis than she most likely as left a trail of signs and score somewhere.

Comment #4.1 by: Sully on 13 Feb 2013, 13:49 GMT

You are very right Sam. It is either that or she purposely had to hide her intellegence somehow. Of course there is the posibility that her past instructors and their administartors are simply that stupid. I leave it with you to decide which.


Comment #5 by: DaveO on 13 Feb 2013, 03:54 UTC reply to this comment

Albert Einstein never took an IQ test. Way to do your research.

Comment #5.1 by: Mach3 on 17 Feb 2013, 00:12 GMT

Hahaha!! XD


Comment #6 by: Goober on 13 Feb 2013, 06:18 UTC reply to this comment

huh huh huh...I'd dress her up...huh huh huh


Comment #7 by: =Tamar on 13 Feb 2013, 07:34 UTC reply to this comment

Nonsense. I know someone who scored 178 on that test when she was 14 years old.


Comment #8 by: angel57 on 13 Feb 2013, 13:59 UTC reply to this comment

"Her and her friends"??? Wrong! She and her friends.


Comment #9 by: Hutch on 13 Feb 2013, 16:06 UTC reply to this comment

Lauren, congrats, hope you can lead a very positive life, you could be the world leader we all have been waiting for, but enjoy your youth, first priority. Bill Hutchinson


Comment #10 by: Jarhead on 13 Feb 2013, 17:08 UTC reply to this comment

I seem to remember Marilyn Vos-Savant as having an IQ of 180 and wrote her own 'Ask Marilyn' syndicated column for a while.


Comment #11 by: fredd on 13 Feb 2013, 17:16 UTC reply to this comment

was it a goverment iq test


Comment #12 by: Mach3 on 17 Feb 2013, 00:11 UTC reply to this comment

He** yeah she's a genius. D*** it all, everyone's intelligent, everyone's exceptional. My question is, was this test rigged? Did someone use contacts so this little blonde-haired genius could score nearly perfect on this mensa test?

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