Natasha, 13, is a student of Florence M Gaudineer Middle School in New Jersey. She took the same test in 2021, when she was in Class 5.
She scored the highest marks among candidates in the latest attempt. Less than 27 percent of the 15,300 candidates who took the tests, qualified for the CTY ceremony, receiving either high or grand honours based on their test scores.
Indian-Americanteen Natasha Perianayagam was on Monday named in a list of the 'world's brightest' school students - by the United States-based Johns HopkinsCenter For Talented Youth (CTY) - for a second year, news agency PTI reported. The results are based on above-grade-level tests the institute held across 76 countries for over 15,000 student.
