SIELE is the Servicio Internacional de Evaluación de la Lengua Española (International Spanish Language Evaluation Service), a service for the evaluation and certification of Spanish language proficiency through electronic means aimed at students and professionals from the five continents.

It is promoted by the Instituto Cervantes, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the University of Salamanca (USAL) and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), which guarantees quality standards and good practices in the elaboration of the tests, and the use of different linguistic varieties of the Hispanic world.

To certify the degree of competence in the Spanish language through four tests: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Written Expression and Interaction, and Oral Expression and Interaction; it takes as a reference the levels established by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) of the Council of Europe.

SIELE is designed for young people and adults, it is a particularly suitable option for people who need a quick accreditation for their admission to a university or the application for a new job.

The SIELE candidate can take either the full exam or by tests. The full exam has a fixed and pre-established order of tests (CL, CA, EIE, EIO), with a duration of 3 hours and an extra 15-minute break.

The SIELE Global exam consists of 4 tests corresponding to the four main communicative activities of the language. It takes 3 hours and the total score is 1000 points (each test has a maximum of 250 points).