Mr. and Mrs. O’Malley-Flack might have been anxious while they waited for their daughter to complete her dyslexia test.

The 10-year-old had had trouble spelling, and it was recommended she take an examination, but as it turned out, she had something else entirely—a prodigious IQ.

Poppy O’Malley-Flack, from the English county of Kent has an IQ of 136, putting her in the top one-percentile of all Britons. The three-hour test concluded that she has exceptional reasoning and problem-solving skills, leaving her mother Lucy in shock.

“We never expected to come out of a dyslexic test and the lady say her reasoning skills and intelligence were exceptionally high,” she told England’s Southwest News Service.

The surprise wasn’t because Poppy wasn’t a clever girl, but rather because she seemed to

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