An 11-year-old Indian-American girl has been judged as one of the brightest students in the world. Natasha Peri, a grade 8th student is declared as the brightest student by a top US university for her exceptional performance in the SAT and ACT standardized tests.
The two standardized tests which are used by many colleges for determining whether to accept a student for admission are Scholastic Assessment Test and American College Testing. In some cases, companies and non-profits also use these scores to award merit-based scholarships. Peri, a student at Thelma L Sandmeier Elementary School in New Jersey, has been honored for her exceptional performance in standardized tests or similar assessments is taken as part of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Talent Search. She was one of nearly 19000 students from 84 countries who joined CTY in the 2020-21 Talent Search year. Peri took the Johns Hopkins Talent Search test in Spring 2021 when she was in Grade 5. Her results in the verbal and quantitative sections leveled with the 90th percentile of advanced Grade 8 performance. She made the cut for Johns Hopkins CTY “High Honors Awards”.
Interestingly, less than 20 percent of CTY Talent Search participants qualified for CTY High Honours Awards. Honorees also qualified for CTY's online and summer programs, through which bright students can form a community of engaged learners with other bright students from around the world. There are more than 15500 enrolments in CTY Online Programmes courses each year.
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