That was usually the strategy though yeah, and if you could get that and hear the major/minor and stuff you could use it to guess the soprano pretty well if you couldnt hear it
tbh i kinda hate how most highschools do music for the most part now, my school's like the only one around that cares about theory and its because we emphasize jazz over marching band
all marching band directors are just like "learn your scales but you dont know why they are what they are and thats all you need to know" for like everyone that i know
There's a bunch more terminology memorizing as well, like always just one question on tempo markings, and stuff like timbre and appoggiatura is all i can remember right now tbh