WHIZKID Adithya Shenoy has scored an A* grade in maths GCSE – aged nine.

Adithya wowed his parents and teachers at Lexden Primary School, in Colchester, after recording the top grade despite admitting he does not really like maths.

Adithya, who sat the exam six years early, got a Kindle from his parents as a reward.

Adithya, who has his sights set on becoming a scientist, said: “I was really pleased. I thought I would probably get an A, maybe if I was lucky.”

Mum Vasundhara said: “On the day of the result I was told to ring up, but I was too nervous.

“In the afternoon I popped in to get them and when I opened it and saw it, I was really glad.”

Adityha, who is a member of Mensa, was tutored at Stanway School during the week and at weekends.

He also took part in lessons with children a year older than him at Lexden Primary, in Trafalgar Road.

His parents praised the school for allowing him to excel.

Alex Candler, assistant headteacher and the school’s gifted and talented co-ordinator, said: “When he joined the school we recognised he had a talent.

“We immediately put him on the school’s gifted and talented register and the school tried to offer as much opportunity for him to work at a high level of maths as much as possible.”

The school has already been in touch with Colchester Royal Grammar School to see if they can help Adithya progress his studies while he remains at the primary school.

He is also due to sit his English and maths SATs tests in a fortnight, alongside the school’s ten and 11-year-olds.

The youngster should be in year four, but due to his intelligence has been put in the class above.

Adithya showed intellectual promise when he was just 18-months-old and started to learn the letters of the alphabet.

By the age of four, pre-school teachers in the family’s former home city of Bristol recommended he underwent a psychological assessment.

It established he had the reading age of a nine-year-old, and his spelling was at the standard of a child aged seven.

Dad, Achuth, a physician at Colchester General Hospital, said: “He was good at English, but suddenly switched over to maths.

“He was good on the computer from a very young age.

“Thank goodness he came here and the teachers were really supportive, the staff have been brilliant – they let him go straight into year two and that was key.”