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3-year-old girl joins genius club Mensa

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A 3-year-old girl, Alice Amos, has become the youngest to join genius club Mensa.

Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world.

She scored 162 on an IQ test which places on par with some of the brightest minds in history, Albert Einstein and Steven Hawking.

She took the test in Russian which both of her parents speaks at home.

She excelled in English as well.

Her father, a telecom sales manager, said, "She was picking up numbers and learning math very quickly.

By the time she was two years and nine months old, she had finished a whole book series for four- to five-year olds, he told the Mirror news.

"She often teaches things to her younger sister, Katie, aged 18 months, who learns by copying her,” He added.

There are 18 preschoolers in Mensa including Alice.

She is in the top one percent of the world population, the Mirror news added.