General Study Skills 2. Reading Skills 3. Listening Skills 4. Notetaking Skills 5. Study where the action isn't.
Independent study can often be a lonely business.
Sometimes it takes a lot of willpower to shut out the rest of the world, but you must be able to do it in order to create an atmosphere that allows you to concentrate. Unless you can discipline yourself to push aside the countless distractions that can interfere with your concentration, the best study habits will be useless. Plan to reward yourself. Most people will concentrate better and study harder if they have some immediate reward to look forward to. Shift quickly into study gear.