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In the article the author considers the philosophical status of the category of competency, where the local integrity of the concept, the personified experience and the promise of the result are united. Here one can perceive the opportunity of adaptation of education, which is capable to adequately form the person in the changing life conditions. Competency is a philosophical tool of the reality cognition and mastering, which is created in the process of education as a result of synchronizing between this process and self-determination of the person. On the basis of oscillation theory, a simplified model of the learning process is proposed by the author. The model assumes that knowledge is stored in the student's mind in the form of oscillations. The attention is focused on the scenarios of intensive and extensive processes of learning. A specific role of the learning pace parameter is revealed.