Double delight for Mensa twins

KEIRA AND KRISH ARORA JOIN EXCLUSIVE SOCIETY AT JUST 11

- By KATHERINE GRAY

A PAIR of 11-year-old twins from Hounslow have made it into a super exclusive society for geniuses. Krish and Keira Arora might be Britain’s smartest twin siblings - with a combined IQ of 314.

These mini-Einsteins, who attend their local state primary school, are already programming robots and writing author-level poetry. But they still like to spend their evenings playing with friends and gaming on their Nintendo Switch.

“Its a very proud feeling. Sometimes you think about it and you feel they've done something impossible because they're so young, so it's remarkable - we never thought that something like this would happen,” says mum, Mauli.

Maths whizz Krish has an IQ of 162, arguably higher than Einstein’s which is estimated to have been around 160. Meanwhile, his creative sister Keira, with an IQ of 152, is an avid reader who writes beautiful poetry - that is when she isn’t performing as the lead in her school rock band.

“Krish was doing things very early on which kids of his age would not do. He was reading very early, so when he was four he was fluently reading and was doing complex decimal divisions around that time. His spellings were also really good for his age. So we did see the sparks,” says Mauli.