A Perth teenager is Australia's smartest kid, according to intelligence society MENSA.
Sharvin Jeyendran from Butler has an IQ of 168, eight points higher than genius Stephen Hawking, Nine News Perth reported on Wednesday. 
The Sacred Heart College student's mother Deva Jeyendran said she knew her son was special when he started speaking in sentences at just nine months.  
"He started talking like a normal child, like how a two or three-year-old could speak with the proper sentences and grammar," she said.
"We were encouraging him, I think any parents will do this and need to do this, kids' brains are like sponges, they will absorb whatever."
The teenager, originally from Malaysia, said he had high ambitions for his future.
"When I grow up I want to be a biological scientist, I want to try find a cure for cancer," he said.
"I also want to be a marine biologist to explore the seas and also have my own charity for all the poor people in the world." 
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