<p>Who says studying for the bar exam can&rsquo;t be fun? At Delaware Law School an idea conceived by Professor Alan E. Garfield has added a quirky, engaging twist to the task.</p>
<p>Garfield thought up the &ldquo;Jeop-bar-dy&rdquo; idea while serving on the school Bar Passage Committee last year. He was looking for ways to engage students and help them improve exam outcomes. Students coined the name.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a fun way to start honing their skills,&rdquo; Garfield said.</p>
<p>Working with Larasz Moody, director of <a href="ipl://413//W10=">bar programs</a>, he launched &ldquo;Jeop-bar-dy,&rdquo; a takeoff on the popular game show &ldquo;Jeopardy.&rdquo; It has several parts. First, there is a multiple-choice question of the week posted online and on a white board in the school&rsquo;s Main Law Building, where students can read and vote on an answer. Garfield emails the solution each Monday with an explanation, and announces a prize winner from the pool of correct submissions.</p>
<p>Moody also drafted professor colleagues to emcee &ldquo;Quizzo&rdquo; events in the student lounge. They have been running biweekly this spring with free pizza lunches. Quizzo questions are based on bar exam points of law, sometimes with a lighter question thrown in for fun.</p>
<p>Garfield also releases 10-question quizzes on various bar exam subjects for students who will be graduating in May and sitting for the bar exam this summer. Eight students who receive the highest cumulative scores will be invited to be contestants in a live Jeop-bar-dy game show event April 7 in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom. Two teams of four will answer multiple choice questions from a giant game board created by Law Librarian Maggie Stewart Adams. Teams get double points if they can explain how they arrived at their answers and if they can&rsquo;t, student audience members have the opportunity try &ndash; and win a swag bag if they&rsquo;re right.</p>
<p>Garfield organized musically inclined students into the &ldquo;Daily Doubles&rdquo; band for last year&rsquo;s event. He hopes to have them back this year to provide the &ldquo;Jeopardy&rdquo; theme song as a backdrop to the fun. He will emcee the big event with help from Moody and Dean Rod Smolla.</p>
<p>For <a href="ipl://20//WyI4MCJd">Garfield</a>, the effort has been about creating a fun way to promote bar exam preparation, as well as building a culture where students start thinking about exam success as soon as they walk in the door.</p>
<p>About 100 students a week have been participating in the online quizzes. While the material is heavy, Garfield looks for ways to brighten it. An animal lover, he&rsquo;s posted signs all over campus featuring pictures of a cocker spaniel he&rsquo;s dubbed &ldquo;Alex Trebite,&rdquo; as an initiative mascot. He also composed a 10-question quiz about the U.S. Supreme Court and cameras in the courtroom, and included a hilarious <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9prhPV2PI">Last Week Tonight with John Oliver video</a>, that depicted the justices as different breeds of dogs, to keep people smiling.</p>
<p>Students have noticed. They appreciate his efforts to inject some fun into an intense task.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I love Professor Garfield&rsquo;s &ldquo;Jeop-bar-dy&rdquo; program,&rdquo; student Ashley DiLiberto, one of the weekly quiz winners, said. &ldquo;It incentivizes students to prepare for the bar exam in a fun, competitive and interactive way.&rdquo;</p>