9-yr-old makes record by passing college-level math test english.kyodonews.net

Shogo Ando, a fourth-year elementary school student in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, passed Suken's top-level 1st kyu test held in October by the Mathematics Certification Institute of Japan.
Ando beat the previous record set by Hiroto Takahashi, who passed the test at the age of 11 last year.
The test is available in 14 levels, ranging from preschool-level to college-level, and more than 350,000 people take the test every year, according to the institute's website.
The first kyu test covers a wide ranging of subjects including multivariable functions and metric linear spaces.
The pass rate of the latest round of the 1st kyu test was 14.4 percent, it said.