GRE vs GMAT — which has less test anxiety / stress?

The GRE is structurally less likely to generate test anxiety and stress for most people. The GMAT keeps escalating question difficulty until it's too hard for you, which is inherently anxiety-inducing. The GRE gives you a consistent difficulty level within each section and lets you skip and return to questions, giving you more control over your experience.

If your real test scores consistently drop below your practice scores, the GRE is likely a better fit — it's designed in a way that tends to produce less of that gap between practice and test-day performance.