Groenewolf
01-20-2009, 08:35 PM
Daily Telegraph (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24926564-5001021,00.html)
THE secret to earning a place at the State's smartest school has been revealed.
Students must have an IQ (intelligence quotient) of at least 145 - equivalent to 240 out of 300 in the selective schools test - to be enrolled at James Ruse Agricultural High.
A genius is often defined as someone with an IQ of 145 or above, so all students at James Ruse, NSW's top selective school, would fall into this category.
The top achiever accepted into a selective school this year scored 267.11 on the entry test - equivalent to an IQ of 156, just four points shy of Albert Einstein's IQ.
James Ruse, one of 21 fully selective high schools in NSW, has the highest entry-test score.
"A profile score of 240 has a most likely IQ equivalent of 145,'' an Education Department spokeswoman said.
That means students accepted by James Ruse are smarter than former US presidents George W. Bush who has a reported IQ of 125, George Washington (118) and Abraham Lincoln (128).
The average IQ is about 100 and a mere 0.1 per cent of the population is considered to have an IQ of 145or higher, giving James Ruse an unbeatable position as NSW's best-performing school.
Its alumni include TV vet Katrina Warren, celebrity hairdresser Joh Bailey, Nova 96.9 host Jabba (Jason Davis), 2008 Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga and ABC election analyst Antony Green.
Students who do not have school assessment scores that can be moderated, and are unable to sit the selective school test because of circumstances beyond their control, are able to provide IQ scores as alternative evidence of academic merit, the Education Department says.
However, IQ-test only applicants this year were very few, the spokeswoman said.
For 2009, 13,336 students have applied for 3522 selective school vacancies.
School captain Pratima Herle and classmate Richard Niall acknowledge they belong to an exceptionally gifted student body but were unaware of IQ scores.
"It doesn't really surprise me,'' Richard said.
"I'm very proud of my school, and we do have very exceptional people. But nobody has ever pointed that score out to me - I never knew that was our ability.''
Pratima said his fellow students did not discuss IQ scores, but were highly motivated and worked hard for their results.
THE secret to earning a place at the State's smartest school has been revealed.
Students must have an IQ (intelligence quotient) of at least 145 - equivalent to 240 out of 300 in the selective schools test - to be enrolled at James Ruse Agricultural High.
A genius is often defined as someone with an IQ of 145 or above, so all students at James Ruse, NSW's top selective school, would fall into this category.
The top achiever accepted into a selective school this year scored 267.11 on the entry test - equivalent to an IQ of 156, just four points shy of Albert Einstein's IQ.
James Ruse, one of 21 fully selective high schools in NSW, has the highest entry-test score.
"A profile score of 240 has a most likely IQ equivalent of 145,'' an Education Department spokeswoman said.
That means students accepted by James Ruse are smarter than former US presidents George W. Bush who has a reported IQ of 125, George Washington (118) and Abraham Lincoln (128).
The average IQ is about 100 and a mere 0.1 per cent of the population is considered to have an IQ of 145or higher, giving James Ruse an unbeatable position as NSW's best-performing school.
Its alumni include TV vet Katrina Warren, celebrity hairdresser Joh Bailey, Nova 96.9 host Jabba (Jason Davis), 2008 Man Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga and ABC election analyst Antony Green.
Students who do not have school assessment scores that can be moderated, and are unable to sit the selective school test because of circumstances beyond their control, are able to provide IQ scores as alternative evidence of academic merit, the Education Department says.
However, IQ-test only applicants this year were very few, the spokeswoman said.
For 2009, 13,336 students have applied for 3522 selective school vacancies.
School captain Pratima Herle and classmate Richard Niall acknowledge they belong to an exceptionally gifted student body but were unaware of IQ scores.
"It doesn't really surprise me,'' Richard said.
"I'm very proud of my school, and we do have very exceptional people. But nobody has ever pointed that score out to me - I never knew that was our ability.''
Pratima said his fellow students did not discuss IQ scores, but were highly motivated and worked hard for their results.