"It is fun learning with older people, I enjoy it.
A schoolboy passed A-Level maths with a Grade A* – at the age of 10.
Kautilya Katariya achieved the top grade eight years earlier than most pupils sit their exams.
He already is the record-holder for being the youngest qualified computer programmer in the world, which he achieved when he was six.
Two years later, he achieved the highest possible marks in GCSE maths after teaching himself the subject online during Covid-19 lockdowns.
Kautilya has now got an A* at A-Level after studying with teenage students at Wootton Park School, Northampton.
Despite being in Year 5, Kautilya hopes to study A-Level further maths and physics next, alongside his Year 6 SATS.
The boy genius also has plans to become the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, having already developed AI software and intends to set up his own company.
Outside the classroom, Kautilya enjoys playing with his younger brother, doing puzzles, origami, swimming, badminton and cycling.
The schoolboy previously said: “I’m feeling good about my achievements and I’m quite proud.
“I got interested when my dad gave me a book about building a programme and I liked it so much I finished it in a day.
“That was when I got a love for computing and I was five-and-a-half. This was when I wrote my first computer program.
“In the future, I want to create new AI and set up my own company.
“It is fun learning with older people, I enjoy it.
“Programming develops problem-solving skills for future challenges and you can make almost anything using programming.”
In 2022, Kautilya attended the World Government Summit in Dubai, where he was invited by the prime minister’s office in the UAE to speak about how governments around the world could support young people like himself and ignite innovation.
He has also given public talks at conferences in America.
His interest in programming began when he saw a game in a book named Bubble Blaster.
Kautilya’s father Ishwari, who is a computer software technician, said:
“He saw this game but didn’t seem interested in playing it.
“He was more interested in asking us questions about how he could make it himself while following instructions from books and videos.
“We bought him an early-learning book on coding and computers thinking it would just be one of those things that he would lose interest in.
“It was just like kid’s play to him. ‘He’s enjoying it’ we thought, ‘so let’s give him more’.
“He just started exploring lots of things over the internet and we bought him more books – he finished a two-year term in six months.
“He started studying artificial intelligence and got this Microsoft software that is made for the technical ability of a professional while being in Year 2.
“There was only so much we could help Kautilya with because of his advanced level.
“Me and his mother are really proud of him and the amazing work he is doing.. It is great to see him feel so accomplished.
“But in general he’s just a normal kid, he’s just really focused on what he does. Anything he does he does with focus.”
“He considers himself a problem solver and he likes to enjoy solving the problem on his own. If I try and help him he’ll say ‘no no, I’ll do it’.
“You might be surprised but he doesn’t spend too much time on the laptop, maybe one hour.
“The rest of the time he spends being a normal little boy, playing outside. He likes cycling, swimming and origami.
“When I ask him what he wants to do when he grows up, he just says he wants to solve lots of problems and keep doing computing problems.
“Maybe he got it from his mum, she’s the brainy one in the family.”
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