'We're the UK's smartest twins and have a combined IQ of 314'

Metro

23-05-2025

What do you do when your twin is a genius? Become one too, I guess.
That was the answer of 11-year-old Keira Arora, who joined MENSA with an IQ of 152 just six months after her twin brother first got in.
With a combined IQ of 314, the pair, from Hounslow in London, are staking their claim as Britain's smartest siblings.
Their parents Nischal and Mauli are also revealing how they raised two children who are finding school frankly far 'too easy'.
Krish Arora got in on the action first. The maths whizz joined Mensa with an IQ of 162 – two more than his 'hero' Albert Einstein – back in November.
He was already doing decimal divisions at the age of four and was reading fluently then, too.
It took just two years for him to master the piano, smashing through four grades in just six months.
But his true love is numbers. The primary school kid has been given piles of maths homework set for school pupils closer to GCSEs, and he's already mastering economics.
Krish, who hopes to be an actuary one day, is looking forward to going to Cambridge despite not even starting secondary school.
But his prospects look good. He got into the UK's best grammar school, Queen Elizabeth, in Barnet after scoring 100% in the 'too easy' 11-plus maths exam.
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'I enjoy the label 'genius', he told Metro.
'And I prefer having my sister with me in Mensa now.'
Twin sister Keira was motivated to try to get into the exclusive club for geniuses when her brother blew away the IQ test six months ago.
She told Metro: 'My brother inspired me to take the Mensa test.
'When I got the results, I was so speechless. I was ecstatic and happy.
'I feel very blessed to have a high IQ.'
She's a different kind of clever, writing 'author-like' works of fiction and poetry.
When she has time, she is the lead singer of her school's rock band.
And just like her brother, she's been introduced to robotics and programming by her parents.
School for her is also a breeze.
Keira, who is an aspiring lawyer, said: 'I don't really find it academically challenging, but I really enjoy school because I get to play with my friends.
'I also like having the label as a genius.'
But how did one household end up producing two mini-Einstein's?
Mum Mauli was keen to stress it was a mixture of nature and nurture.
She told Metro: 'The kids have to have the spark, something on the genetic side of it.
'But it is also about the environment that you give them. We are very hands on parents. We expose them to a lot of activities.
'That exposure helps them to learn a lot of things and also to find out where their interests are.'
Their household rules are also the most eye-catching.
While they endorse screen time for language learning on Duolingo and other serious work, screen time for fun is strictly limited to only one hour a day.
'Screen time has to be allowed to some extent, because a lot of learning comes from it,' Mauli explained.
'But in terms of them browsing at leisure or whatever they want to browse, that we limit to one hour.'
'Too much screen time for children can take your focus away. I 100% agree on that.'
Bedtime is also strictly 9.30pm, and they get up bright and early every day to start learning. More Trending
But Twins Krish and Keira are in complete agreement with their parent's methods.
Keira praised the careful limits on mindless phone or gaming time: 'I feel like the limitation of screen time helps me to focus. It means my brain is not so zoned out.'
Both children are beginning their secondary education in September.
While Krish is going to Queen Elizabeth School, Keira is going to very highly-rated Tiggin Girls' School in Kingston.
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