Both, you can do well by being either good or by working hard...
I get A's in computer science basically without turning up because I understand the subject and have a good grasp of it.
I get A-D in Electrical engineering because I don't grasp it intutively so must work at it... barely scraped through this year because I got like 2 hours revision for each course (~ half way reading through the notes... no examples or stuff).
Some people know stuff intuitively or grasp it very quickly, others don't or can't... hard work can get round most of the later however it can take a lot of work, I sound really like a stereotyper here but its true... hardwork => intuitive learning, however it takes a lot of hardwork to beat a hardworking intitive learner (I know from High School... man it sucks being 2nd when you know you could do better if you tried!)
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