It's hard. The midterm was already difficult, and then the final took it to another level. One of the questions could legitimately be a Scheme homework assignment. Generally speaking, there are three types of exam questions:

- Rote: Implementing a simple function, drawing syntax diagrams, etc. This is as close to free points as you're gonna get, so I try to do these first.
- Discussion: I save them for last since they're pretty easy to BS. On the flip side, the TA's will often have a random reason to dock points.
- Cool stuff: Occasionally there will be a question that is like a logic puzzle. The answer was not discussed in class exactly, but you can arrive at it with a solid understanding of the course material. Probably where people lose most points.

Overall, there is no difference between remote and non-remote Eggert exams; they're still timed and he still writes them the day before.

On the other hand, the homeworks are extremely fair. The spec contains a lot of test cases, and if you pass all of them you're almost certainly going to score perfectly. Not to mention the exponential decay penalty for late submission :chef_kiss: