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Playing it by ear is a good way to go.
I think you'll find that the science sticks better when you have something concrete to apply it to: aeronautics, for example. You _were_ playing the school game, and the school game is to pass -- not necessarily to learn. But you are coming to an understanding of what these courses were all about, and grad school will help further that, because applying what you learn and synthesizing new info from it is what grad school is all about.
So I'd just ask you a couple of questions:
1) Are you willing to work as hard at understanding now as you did at passing, before? Because if you are, you'll probably make it.
2) Have you ever failed at anything academically, or at much of anything you really tried hard for? It doesn't sound like it. If that's the case, then you'll do what you need to do to make grad school work -- ie, _really_ learn something.
The other thing to remember is that even when you get out of grad school, it's only the beginning; they don't teach you everything you need to know, just what you need to know to keep learning more . Just talking to people in different professions, I found a consensus that it really takes about seven years in practice to really get on top of your profession.
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