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tv   Indias Child Geniuses  Al Jazeera  February 19, 2018 8:33am-9:01am +03

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five million indian children have genius level i.q. but their talents too often go undiscovered. in one of the world's most populous nation the lack of education and opportunities holds them back. now hope has come to india slow. a team of academics is taking on the challenge of finding times in the uk. i'm steve cho on this edition of one of one east we meet india's young geniuses dreaming of their
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chance to shine. no no no. it's amazing and kids in an urban slum are up with caring for a new day. and it looks and sounds like a construction site. but it's a school. and. these are the kids a brick show drivers made in my class. in today one or two of them could get a big step up in life. they're about to sit an exam designed by mensa the world's oldest high i.q. society. and they're here to see if they can discover a genius kid from the slum. to
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give me a good kick i think you get the name would be more on hand if that would be good should be get it all out of your top two percent name peer group are doing a lot. coming. sure a stana minutes a scholar person is hoping this test will uncover a brilliant mind. they are the ones the last. we hear five to six million children under privileged who have an i.q. over one third. so we're trying to locate uncut diamonds in this all my you know people over here and if we can get some we'll try to polish them up for those who get elected their lives with you. passing the test is just the beginning. if a genius is found a win a scholarship at a school usually only the privileged cannot stand. out what would that mean to get
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her to a nice school. for children every day. what would you like to be one day i learn. when you. are put in minute will a go at best question. is the giftedness of being logical basically it is about identifying a pattern. he's looking for kids with the same i.q. is hillary clinton thomas edison even follow us turn on. you don't respect a more difficult questions. because you have very little pain. and there are pencils down pencil down that here some just close your booklet because your answer sheet. there are some mixed feelings as the kids pack up.
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but the girl who wants to be a police officer is confident. i don't live on a. block. so put your hand up if you're going to tell me i'm a genius and that. i'm. now it's a waiting game. we've got more now more dangerous is. in a week i'll find out if any of these kids will get the chance to leave this roadside school.
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the start of the search for kids with high i.q. is just one year ago. it's part of a much bigger quest as india tries to leave did so fuck to become a leader. and this is where the transition from slum kid to school that takes place . this is the special school they get access to if they stay mensa test. but it's tough keeping good grades is only the start of the challenges facing. them and guide them. when they become leaders anything we want i mean there are raw materials waiting to be morbid and that is why it's very very important. that and this is one of my more. reto pos one is one of mensa's
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geniuses only twelve years old she tested with an i.q. of one forty five a school that means she's exceptionally gifted medical fellow took a b.s. on a lower gear how many you. can give her time apart all by clicking mon so hard i don't know. if i was ok thank god last year she made a big leap moving from a school in a tent to proper listens taught entirely in english. mr bott studies at the new school. give us the you. know where our school got good matches where you feel good english made them all well and good can be good no less so there was going to but i. was thinking you don't let my dog does me i
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remember as he goes he was. meant to be my doctor but were you. so sick at home one hundred pounds in bonds that. he. was. going to sixty years. next door in an eighth grade class the newly discovered genius is showing up the rest of the students. there are the subjects they're going to face get by with a bottle of beer don't fall i'm bored goes out there on the border taliban so making war. can be no. that's not right i'm sorry to sound like you. found to have an i.q.
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of a. one thirty five. he's just four points short of neil armstrong in his footsteps she hopes to follow her career as well. but these genius kids are under constant threat. they can potentially lose the scholarship if they don't perform well enough. but. end up as a. genius. the pressure is relentless at school and also at home.
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to visit a migrant neighborhood. spies to be an. older women around to work as domestic servants. have finished high school let alone a medical degree. and all of the. time. it's for. but but this is like you just said that in a sad i would just say i look at the scene for looks i look theoretical it is in there looking it up which one said to me thank you. there's a lot of love here there's also a lot of writing we choose cleverness for mother and sister were both married off young and both very minds have been shaped by traditional juice which they don't
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want for richard. we didn't put the here from over there is a good. marriage but there are medical torak italia board would have helped her mother. so it's a myth castle life is in need of genius and read that are modern art. though material sawyer that they're born will consider leah looking at it but then they are clearly trivially. heroes mera at the sort of. primitive all that are. the mom is pinning the entire family's future on the twelve year old all because of her gift. to he was really he he.
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walked through all. into all. least. a few. oh yeah. you know. when you need everybody give good. so what these are the good with. the hopes and dreams of two generations are riding on retune shoulder.
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it's four in the afternoon after a long day at school read to you should be doing a sign. but she's needed across town with the mom. of the. heads. of god burning. you came. to. ok. but now you know it's mrs. richie to worry they should stay. home with you but i got news you might my mom could be. there but i thought i said my god do you put them on my give
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. us. we need one and. bigotry and yet. they have got something going and everything you want you to. see is what got us there. you see a school she doesn't know that they can see here. she may have high hopes for rita but her mom is already thinking of a plan b. . the reality is the mensa scholarship will stop after high school. and she knows a medical degree is very expensive and as i said this last one that the bad i guess some of that main relay can make up. all.
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the time you see here different got there but i missed something up where i got by . by that name miller at the filmmakers. every parent worries what will become of the child. for girls in india security comes from marriage which means many genius goals battled their parents just to stay in school. the most challenges are coming from the side from the family they come from because what them one day our educators they need to find a good match for marriage. the principal admits it can take more work educating parents than it can the school up in one bed and don't understand and so that on educating them from the time they need. to when they look at how they argue.
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in the constant struggle to make ends meet it can be difficult for families to see a child's role beyond their duty to the family or. to fourteen year old bhatia the budding astronauts problem is a place she tries to avoid. it means returning to a world where life is approved by poverty not possibilities. not by them but are. because going on their claims that. you don't really know how to make. things. worse than i am only saying. we're going to remove.
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the life of your mom. name ten of us. a member of our part of the honor. system other than yes. i mean. if you have a suspect the fashion was so smart. that's bush's family not only struggles financially the father has a serious problem. for job training a arbet are. there for a job and does their fair job just ever want. to prepare. for a good guy mcdonough a. lot of a list of them that i. will the ball the trouble
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with a child of money and. because of his drinking a father can hold down a job. rush is constantly worried she will have to drop out of school to work the luckier the make up of. and with little time to study the scholarship inspired thread something her family doesn't seem to grasp. they support you in your dreams. and thought they might be one with them but among the. point guard. or is passed around about the one you want their bones and i want the one.
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she says she wants to be an astronaut or. you know she has an i.q. . of apollo astronauts and her family don't realize that. but india's genius kids don't face this journey alone. varsha has a mentor a woman who has climbed to the top of the professional world and is guiding the way . i see that she's one of those little girls from childhood to have a care what they want to do in life. that we love about the new me about her.
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argument that because it's really about you this is suburbs lady brought together by mensa she's a role model to confined in and today she's arranged a surprise do you overshadowed. by and russia do you know do you with. mr edgerton right is an astronomer was. you like astronomy. seeing as usual few things. so yeah. the comedian astronomy is a chance most kids in history will never get. it's humongous at such a place like. this that this had to say. this is like a light bucket if you look at it collects the light and then. all the light collects over here tonight there's a super moon and bhatia the astronaut hopefully is getting her very first glimpse
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up close i want to support a completely no matter what because she has some challenges back or so from hope i spect of it's important that if there is one person in their life who can at least tell you overshot dig this step it will lead you to your destination or do not take this step because he or you missed going to get a. copy of the you can walk through here. my mom. could have very good a. boss make a kid. the . force of the thinking that was a good does take a challenge. for varsha it's the
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first time in a dream feels really. john dick naked but for me as some of the master card but much i wanted to do when there's a warning i'm going to get caught up in this basement that space based on the time he told me they decided they needed to dig through. the ball with the me i knew something people in the same dream a reality me all. day i want to support it. since i don't know what's in store for vosh. in four years to be among the first mensa scholars to graduate in the pantheon that is a plea but she's already tasted a very different future. even if her family don't realize it's possible.
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before leaving india there's one last thing i need to do. it's been seven days since menses last round of testing and i want to know if a new genius could be about to start a journey of their own. to him they are but firstly i thought. here. we are. now. on some server will be a man who thought bob this miss started but jordan a. seven high scores out of fifty who were tested. but has anyone scored high enough to be deemed a genius. a charge a snake. head north. on every log thank you no they are. scoring in the ninety ninth
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percentile thirteen year old vinod has an i.q. of one forty five and is announced a new mensa scholar a bright boy we know that. they were all right in your mouth after. your to help your parents really good care but not a good one like at the end engineering matter. and in a surprise follow up. dirty. just to contradict ten year old dreams of becoming a muslim to mention to. your she's just missed out on becoming a genius but her high school is incentive to try again. here are just equal in-situ. to get paid up but best. qualified. to give them the realisation that they're bright that they have the only within
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