Talk about being too smart for your own good.

A Connecticut man has been barred from becoming a cop because he scored too high on the entrance exam.

“It’s just the dumbest thing that I can be too intelligent to become a police officer,” said a dumbfounded Robert Jordan.

“It doesn’t make any sense. I think this is highly insulting to the profession that they only want cops with a certain intelligence level,” the 49-year-old college graduate and former law student told The Post from his Waterford home.

“This policy is stupid and wrong. It’s bizarre and it’s discriminating. It’s ridiculous that I’m being penalized because I answered too many correct questions on the exam.”

A Manhattan federal court judge upheld a lower court’s decision that the New London Police Department did not discriminate against Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.

In 1996, Jordan – who works as a prison guard at Corrigan Correctional Institution in Montville – scored a 33 out of 50 on the Wonderlic Personnel Test, the equivalent of an IQ of 125.

The test is designed to measure cognitive ability, problem-solving abilities and how quickly a person learns.

But the police interviewed only candidates who scored between 20 to 27 on the premise that those who ace the test could get easily bored with being a cop and bolt soon after undergoing expensive training.

The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.

The NYPD does not exclude wannabe-cops who score well above average on the entrance exam.

New London police refused comment yesterday.

A disillusioned Jordan said he will not pursue any further legal action or try to join another force.

“I’m just so burned out,” said Jordan, whose brother is a sergeant with the New London police.

“I’ve had quite a few offers from other police departments around the country, but I’m just too disenchanted. I would have been a great cop.”

When asked about dumbing down for the test, Jordan said that would have been stupid.

“I just couldn’t do that, because it wouldn’t have been fair to myself,” he said. “I would never have intentionally filled in the wrong answers. That’s just dumb.”