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The purpose of the article is to define the ways of forming key competences on the basis of the physics training material. The article considers the opportunities of the experimental studies in physics to solve this task and the trends of its modernization, taking into account the principles of the problem-oriented training and the professional adaptation requirements. The authors give a classification of the general labor skills which can be formed while studying physics. The peculiarities of teaching physics at the institutions of higher education in economics and nutrition have been considered.  There is presented a list of experiments including some elements of scientific research, which can be applied to the experimental studies in physics at the institutions of higher education of that type.