Who is Preesha Chakraborty — named in the world’s brightest students list

Who is Preesha Chakraborty?

Preesha Chakraborty is a Warm Spring Elementary school student in Fremont — a city in California. She took the US-based Johns Hopkins Centre for Talented Youth (JH-CTY) test in Summer 2023 as a Grade 3 student, according to a media release.

Preesha loves to travel, hike, and is interested in mixed martial arts besides her studies.

According to her parents, Preesha has always been passionate about learning and has consistently displayed exceptional academic abilities.

What are her achievements?

As part of the CTY Talent Search, she has been honoured for her exceptional performance on the SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test), ACT (American College Testing), School and College Ability Test, or similar assessments.

According to the press release, she has aced in the test’s verbal and quantitative sections – on par with the 99th percentile of advanced Grade 5 performances – and bagged the Grand Honors. This achievement qualifies her for more than 250 Johns Hopkins CTY’s Online and On-Campus Programmes for advanced students in grades 2-12 in mathematics, computer programming, chemistry, physics, reading, and writing.

Moreover, she became a lifetime member of the universally renowned Mensa Foundation, the oldest high-IQ society in the world, at the age of six.

This membership is open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test. She secured 99 percentiles in the national level NNAT (Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test), which assesses K-12 students for gifted and talented programmes.

— with inputs from PTI