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For me, it was a critical life skill... much of my career I have been placed in positions of having to go from knowledge level zero to level "expert" in a few days and then give a presentation. You quickly learn there's a sort of meta-knowledge (knowledge about knowledge) that helps parse and categorize data elements within a knowledge field.
The more you already "grok" a concept, the faster you can read to add more attributes to that concept and retain them.
The mechanical act of reading (grabbing blocks with the eye rather than single words, reduction of back-glancing, ignoring english "fluff", etc) can be improved. For retention, following that up with a self-quiz (which helps memory-retention) or talking it over with someone else (also helping memory retention) is useful.
Like I said before, the test linked to is totally useless in that it fails to test for comprehension and retention.
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