Q50, V35... Need to focus on verbal, but keep up with math

First off, congratulations on the stellar quantitative score. That score is the score a lot of people dream of.

Anyway, I think you're correct that improvement should focus on verbal. Vandygrad is on point with this one.

I think the Pareto principle would apply here. 20% of verbal improvement will have an 80% commensurate improvement in your overall GMAT score. That being said, if you could increase your verbal to the high 30s all the way to the low to mid 40s you're expecting a rock star GMAT score.

Keep us posted!

At this point, there isn't much you can do to improve your Q score. Just make sure that you're practising enough to keep your Q blade sharp, and focus on the Verbal segment for now.

You're probably right about needing luck to perform any better on the Q segment. If you have a good day and get lucky with questions, a 51 is a definite possibility. Make a couple careless mistakes, though, and you might just drop to 49. All in all, it's probably not worth worrying too much about it; you clearly already know enough Q concepts to answer all of the questions that they're asking, and right now it only comes down to whether or not you can apply what you know to the particular questions that you get asked.