11-year old Natasha Peri, has been judged as one of the brightest students in the world. 

It comes on the back of an exceptional performance shown by Peri, in the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT). These are the tests that are used to determine if or not a student should be admitted to a college. Several colleges in the US use these tests as qualifying criteria to grant admission to students.

These tests were conducted as part of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Talent (CTY) Search. Peri, who is currently a student at New Jersey’s Thelma L Sandmeier Elementary School, was honoured for her exceptional performance in the assessment. 

She was one of nearly 19,000 students from 84 countries who joined CTY in the 2020-21 Talent Search year. CTY uses above-grade-level testing to identify advanced students from around the world and provide a clear picture of their true academic abilities.

Peri took the Johns Hopkins Talent Search test in Spring 2021, when she was in Grade 5. What makes the feat incredible is the fact that her results in the verbal and quantitative sections levelled with the 90th percentile of advanced Grade 8 performance.

She made the cut for Johns Hopkins CTY “High Honors Awards”.