NE Watch Desk
Indian-American schoolgirl Preesha
Chakraborty at just 9 entered the “world’s brightest” students list by the
Johns Hopkins Centre for Talented Youth. The prodigy appeared in above-grade-level
tests of 16,000 plus students from more than 90 nations.
Preesha, a student of Warm Spring
Elementary school in California’s Fremont, took the US-based Johns Hopkins
Centre for Talented Youth or JH-CTY test as student of Grade 3 in Summer 2023.
Her exceptional performance on the SAT
(Scholastic Assessment Test), ACT (American College Testing), School and
College Ability Test, or similar assessments as part of the CTY Talent Search
helped her earn this honour.
Preesha’s verbal and quantitative
sections of the test were on par with the 99th percentile of advanced Grade 5
performances. Subsequently, she bagged the Grand Honors where less than 30 per
cent of students qualify each year.
She is now qualified for more than 250
Johns Hopkins CTY’s Online and On-Campus Programmes for advanced students in
grades 2-12 in computer programming, chemistry, mathematics, physics, reading
and writing.
The child is a lifetime member of world’s
prominent and oldest high-IQ society Mensa Foundation, where membership is open
to people securing the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised
IQ or other approved intelligence test.
At just 6, she attained this feat by
securing 99 percentiles in the national level Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test,
which assesses K-12 students.
Preesha has always been an avid learner with
constant exceptional academic abilities and love for travel, hiking and mixed
martial arts other than studies.
CTY Executive Director Amy Shelton mentioned
the achievement is “a testament to their capacity for learning and curiosity”
and “not just recognition of students’ performance on one test”.
