Top of the Class College Students: Do you feel you have BS a little to achieve?

I’m not a great college student. I get Bs and some Cs. Most of the classes I had so far were science and they didn’t require a lot of essay questions. I am not very experienced with that type of thing. So now, I have this Religious Studies class. One thing we have to do is visit at religious site (which I think is pretty cool). Before we can go we need answer some essays. Questions like, “Why did you choose this particular site?” and “Pick one article from your text and explain how it will help when you get there?”. I find that I don’t have a real answer for questions like this and I usually answer with what I think the professor wants hear which ends being a little on the BS side.

Is this normal? Do you college students who gets As do this?