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It's a bit complicated. Basically, an A-level here is 6 modules. For maths and further maths, the courses are combined so you do a total of 12 modules. (if you just did maths, then you'd only do 6). The ones I ended up doing were Pure 1-6, Mechanics 1-2, Statistics 1-3 and Discrete 1. The single maths people (who didn't do further maths) did P1-3, S1, M1 and either S2 or M2. There's a few others that can be done - there's M3 and I think also a D2. Not that this is of any use now, as the whole maths/further maths spec has changed, but like I care :D
The exam boards then do some weird stuff with the results, to give you your best possible grade in Maths and then what's left goes to Further Maths.

So Further Maths is basically Maths, but with some more nastiness like integrating factors, evil differentiation and integration of evil sin/cos/tan stuff, vector triple product, and t-tests & confidence intervals.