Sir, I tried to contact the JEE advanced committee, this year's IIT Kanpur. But I didn't receive a response. My question is whether or not it is possible to give JEE ADVANCED by reappearing for your class 12th exams via NIOS after exhausting previous attempts. The JEE committee has given no response and I am running out of options.

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