Adaptive mixed finite element schemes for Benjamin-Bona-Mahony and Burgers equations are considered. The aim is to generate more accurate approximate solutions of the exact solution and its derivative by using adaptive mesh refinement scheme. The mesh is refined by using two proposed methods with selected tolerance to achieve approximate solutions having specified accuracy in an optimal way. The computation begins with an experimental set of approximate solutions generated on a coarse initial mesh by using the mixed finite element method. Then, the error estimate of these solutions is appraised. A principal tool of this adaptive scheme is the availability of local error estimates, namely local a posteriori error estimators. The numerical results show that the desired accuracy of approximate solution can be accomplished by using the proposed adaptive schemes.