I hate the FAST "Drill", too.
On the other hand, the "Fundamentals, Accuracy, and Speed Test" is a handy benchmark test of certain skills that I agree is arranged in a useful order.
Todd reiterated over and over to the point of redundancy that anybody sitting there burning reps on it over and over again was Doing It Wrong and that if one were chasing improvement on that particular test, the way to do so was to practice the discrete skills that it measures.