characteristics common in students who achieve all A's in college?

Answer 1

they are able to relate what they are trying to remember to something they all ready know, when a fellow classmate was doing a survey on students grade average and what kind of music they listen to, most of the "smart" kids listened to instrumental, classical and other music of that nature. and those students had smart parents too.

Answer 2

They ether work really really hard, or are really really smart....

Or take only simple clases in a simple school... lol