Personally, I'd do what Steve talks about in one of his blogs ("timeboxing" or something I think he called it), and set intervals for studying of no more than 30 minutes at a time. Set an alarm for 30 minutes, do nothing but study hard for those 30, then when it goes off, set it for 15-30 more, and do whatever you feel like. As soon as the alarm goes off again, it's 30 more minutes of 100% focused study time, then back to whatever you'd rather be doing for the next block, on and on.
This would work well for me because I've realized that if I tell myself "I'm going to do this or that (not studying for me but usually something else I don't want to do, house cleaning or whatnot) for the next 3 hours!" I absolutely will not do it at all, or will just start slacking off after the first 20-30 minutes as by then it feels like the 3 hrs will never end.
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