The proficiency in English of the present day students is not adequate enough to cope with college studies. Students whose mother tongue is not English meet many new problems when they start studying at colleges where English is the medium of instruction. Some of them find that the variety of English they have learnt is literary and old-fashioned. Some of them have learnt very little English from the subjects they are studying. The language skills they possess are often appropriate only for the reading of simple retold abridged stories and not suited to the study of textbooks and journals written in scholarly English. They have learnt to write compositions but not to compose reports and articles. This paper elaborates the usefulness of study skills among students and finally illustrates how these skills pave way for learner autonomy.