Purposely missing an AS exam

There was a time when you didn't have to write a personal statement. Come to that, there was a time when resits didn't exist.

December 15th Deadline

I was listening to someone on the radio last week talking about their UCAS application in the early 90s and they started off saying "you could only apply to 5 choices". nope in the 90s you could apply to SIX choices....and now I don't believe any of your other recollections because you can't even get the basics right and instead of checking you just looked at the current system.

There's probably a website somewhere that tracks all these changes December 15th Deadline

Was that the deadline for medicine/vet medicine/dentistry and Oxford/Cambridge as well?

I've got my AS exams coming and I'm almost certain I'll fail my Economics exam. My other 3 subjects on the other hand I'm predicted A's and so I'd like to just miss my economics one. Will Uni's be able to see my grade at all? Or will it seem as though I never even studied Economics and only did the other 3? Also I plan to pick up another AS next year and do it for only the first year to get some extra UCAS points.
As a further point I have asked my teacher to allow me to not take the exam but was told it is too late.