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Evening course tend to have a diffrent atmosphere to school (good!) but require more commitment / work on behave of the student (maybe bad maybe good depending on your personality). Do it, if you don't like it quit.
Maths like lots of things in life requires practice. Boring repetitive practice. Some may get the initial concept quicker than others but everyone needs to plug a away at it. IF they tell you they just read it, get it and then remeber it they are lying. My own boss is a fucking genius but even she works her (metaphorical) bollocks off to understand new concepts. Also like every other subjects you may be interested in area A but you will require at least some knowledge of area B, which you don't like. So it is not always interesting but is ultimately rewarding.
What do you wish to achieve? Are you interested in maths for maths sake or are you interested in maths for how it is used? Or are you just interesting the mathematical way of a approaching a problem? Simon Sign is the standard maths author for popular mathematical science but it tends to be about mathematical historical stories. Paulson a mathematician plays the stock market is quite a good book to see how to analysis things and dissemble them. Do you have a particular ares you're interested in, probability? calculus / applied maths / engineering / physics? Number theory? discreet mathematics / graph theory / combinatorics?
If you want to keep on the learning mathematics I'd recommend enrolling in the 'A' level first and see how it goes. Further maths then if you want a little extra information but if you really want to carry on I'd go straight for a OU or part time university course. Further maths is good to get you started on some proper maths if you're starting at a top university as courses can move quickly but not 100% necessary. Also further maths halve introduces some subject areas but does not complete them. So if your planning on carrying on learning you may as well learn it once and learn it well. OU courses are expensive but you can take 10 years to do a degree so you spread the cost and put a low time commitment in if you wish. People seem to come out with a very good understanding because of this and high self motivation.
If you want help with anything or more info let me know via PM.