Haha, this is very similar to the list I came up with when I was flunking at Caltech:

1. attend all the lectures

2. attend all the recitation sessions

3. do 100% of the homework, and on time

4. make sure to understand every homework question and how to solve it.

5. write legible notes

This was good enough to get a baseline B. To get an A, you had to put in much more work.

I know this stuff seems obvious. But it took me a while to figure out I couldn't just coast and wing it like in high school, and many other students had the same experience.